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Lot Essay
The present badge features a rare yinglong dragon, which refers to dragons with wings and horns, which was thought to be a rain deity. Winged dragon badges are thought to be of the rarest types of festival badges, which were worn by the Imperial court for the Winter Solstice.
A similarly worked dragon, but without the rare wings featured on the present badge and on a different silk ground, is in the University of Alberta Museums, Mactaggart Art Collection, and is published by J. Vollmer and J. Simcox, Emblems of Empire: Selections from the Mactaggart Art Collection, Edmonton, Canada, 2009, p. 54.
A similarly worked dragon, but without the rare wings featured on the present badge and on a different silk ground, is in the University of Alberta Museums, Mactaggart Art Collection, and is published by J. Vollmer and J. Simcox, Emblems of Empire: Selections from the Mactaggart Art Collection, Edmonton, Canada, 2009, p. 54.