A PAIR OF IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED DRAGON SQUARES

LATE QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED DRAGON SQUARES
LATE QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each made for a Duke, and worked in satin stitch and couched gold thread with a four-clawed dragon shown full face as it leaps around a flaming pearl amdist lingzhi-shaped clouds above a rock emerging from wind-tossed waves, with sprays of white flowers at each corner, and within a border of angular scroll intertwined with foliate meander and joined in the center of each side by a ruyi motif, all in shades of blue, green, white and pale coral on a satin ground
10¾ x 11½ in. (27.3 x 29.2 cm.), mounted, lucite frame (2)

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Dragon badges or squares were worn by members of the Imperial family. As the dragons on the present pair of squares are four-clawed they are called mang, and being shown full face they indicate a rank above a walking dragon or dragon shown in profile.

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