Lot Essay
Only about twenty percent of existing insignia badges are military, likely because the civil bureaucracy was much larger.
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EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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AN INSIGNIA BADGE FOR A FIFTH RANK MILITARY OFFICIAL, BUZI
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Worked in the Qianlong style with a central large blue bear in a cosmic landscape, with the sun, ruyi-form clouds, a bat, peach, peony and narcissus above crashing waves, framed in a diaper-pattern border with gold-couched threads
11 5/8 x 12¼ in. (29.5 x 31 cm.)
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Worked in the Qianlong style with a central large blue bear in a cosmic landscape, with the sun, ruyi-form clouds, a bat, peach, peony and narcissus above crashing waves, framed in a diaper-pattern border with gold-couched threads
11 5/8 x 12¼ in. (29.5 x 31 cm.)