Lot Essay
The single halberd contained within a vase and jade musical chime provide the rebus jiqing pingan, 'peace and auspicious happiness'. It may also read as a 'wish to rise by one rank'.
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QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PAIR OF KESI CIVIL OFFICIAL'S 'GOLDEN PHEASANT' RANK BADGES, BUZI
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Each made for a second rank official, finely woven and detailed with pigments to depict a golden pheasant at the centre, standing with one leg raised and the other standing on rockwork, its head raised towards the sun admist ruyi-clouds in the distance, the foreground with rolling waves floating a vase accommodating a musical chime, pearls and coral, beside an embankment with pine tree growing behind jagged rocks
9 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (23 x 26 cm.), mounted and framed (2)
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Each made for a second rank official, finely woven and detailed with pigments to depict a golden pheasant at the centre, standing with one leg raised and the other standing on rockwork, its head raised towards the sun admist ruyi-clouds in the distance, the foreground with rolling waves floating a vase accommodating a musical chime, pearls and coral, beside an embankment with pine tree growing behind jagged rocks
9 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (23 x 26 cm.), mounted and framed (2)
Provenance
Linda Wrigglesworth, London
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Aster Ng