JOSEON DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

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TWO PAIRS OF KOREAN SILK EMBROIDERED RANK BADGES, HYUNG BAE
JOSEON DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
The first pair of rank badges are for a military officer signified by a single white tiger-leopard with brown spots amongst clouds and cresting waves worked in polychrome silk embroidery on a dark blue ground within a blue border; the second pair are for a civil official of the fourth rank or below signified by a single crane in flight with a stalk of the sacred fungus in its beak, embroidered in polychrome silks on a dark blue ground amongst clouds and above cresting waves within a blue border.
The larger 10 ¾ x 11 3/8 in. (29 x 27.4 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Other single leopard rank badges are illustrated by Young Yang Chung in Silken Threads: A History of Embroidery in China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam, New York, 2005, pls 1-9 and 3-8. A single rank badge with a tiger-leopard offered together with a double tiger-leopard rang badge from the Robert Moore Collection of Korean Art sold at Christie's New York, 18 March 2014, lot 724.

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