QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A FINE KESI CIVIL OFFICIAL'S RANK BADGE OF A MANDARIN DUCK, BUZI
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Made for a civil official of the seventh rank. The bird shown facing the sun as it alights on a rock protruding from a grassy ground with narcissus, lingzhi, chrysanthemum and bamboo, beside a river and flanked by further rockwork with an additional pine tree, the sky filled with ruyi-shaped clouds, all in shades of blue, coral, green, white and brown with painted details, within a gold border.
9 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. (25.2 x 26.5 cm.) mounted

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Judith Rutherford

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The seventh rank included the post of District Magistrate, the most important official with whom the vast majority of ordinary Chinese people would not have any dealings.

A very similar badge from the collection of Judith Rutherford is illustrated by B. Jackson and D. Hughes, Ph.D., Ladder to the Clouds, Berkeley, 1999, p. 240.