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FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
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AN EMBROIDERED GAUZE CIVIL OFFICIAL'S RANK BADGE OF AN EGRET, BUZI
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Made for a civil official of the sixth rank, finely worked in counted stitch with colored silk floss, the bird shown facing the sun as it alights on a rock emerging from froth-capped waves tossed with auspicious emblems, surrounded by blue and white lingzhi-shaped clouds, all picked out in shades of blue, coral, yellow, green and white in contrast to the midnight-blue silk gauze ground, within a key-fret border of gold-wrapped thread
12½ x 12¾ in. (31.8 x 32.5 cm.)
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Made for a civil official of the sixth rank, finely worked in counted stitch with colored silk floss, the bird shown facing the sun as it alights on a rock emerging from froth-capped waves tossed with auspicious emblems, surrounded by blue and white lingzhi-shaped clouds, all picked out in shades of blue, coral, yellow, green and white in contrast to the midnight-blue silk gauze ground, within a key-fret border of gold-wrapped thread
12½ x 12¾ in. (31.8 x 32.5 cm.)
Provenance
Private English collection.