Lot Essay
The applied animal and repeat cloud design of the second badge is characteristic of features of the late Qing period.
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LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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AN EMBROIDERED GAUZE CIVIL OFFICIAL'S RANK BADGE OF A GOLDEN PHEASANT AND AN EMBROIDERED BLACK SATIN MILITARY OFFICIAL'S RANK BADGE OF A BEAR, BUZI
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The first made for a second rank civil official made of summer gauze almost completely embroidered in counted stitch with the long-tailed bird facing the sun as it alights on a rock emerging from waves above a lishui stripe, surrounded by dense clouds, bats and Buddhist emblems, all picked out in shades of dark and light blue, yellowish-green, green, coral, purple and white and outlined in fine gold-wrapped thread, within a border of foliate scroll; the fifth rank military official's black satin rank badge with a bear applied to the badge and worked in fine couched gold and silver thread and satin stitch surrounded by a dense ground of small clouds interspersed with Buddhist emblems
11¼ x 12 in. (28.5 x 30.5 cm.), 11¾ x 12 in. (29.8 x 30.5 cm.) (2)
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The first made for a second rank civil official made of summer gauze almost completely embroidered in counted stitch with the long-tailed bird facing the sun as it alights on a rock emerging from waves above a lishui stripe, surrounded by dense clouds, bats and Buddhist emblems, all picked out in shades of dark and light blue, yellowish-green, green, coral, purple and white and outlined in fine gold-wrapped thread, within a border of foliate scroll; the fifth rank military official's black satin rank badge with a bear applied to the badge and worked in fine couched gold and silver thread and satin stitch surrounded by a dense ground of small clouds interspersed with Buddhist emblems
11¼ x 12 in. (28.5 x 30.5 cm.), 11¾ x 12 in. (29.8 x 30.5 cm.) (2)