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TWO PAIRS OF KOREAN SILK EMBROIDERED RANK BADGES, Other single leopard rank badges are illustrated by Young Yang Chung in
HYUNG BAE Silken Threads: A History of Embroidery in China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam,
JOSEON DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY New York, 2005, pls 1-9 and 3-8. A single rank badge with a tiger-leopard
The frst pair of rank badges are for a military oficer signifed by a single white ofered together with a double tiger-leopard rang badge from the Robert
tiger-leopard with brown spots amongst clouds and cresting waves worked Moore Collection of Korean Art sold at Christie’s New York, 18 March 2014,
in polychrome silk embroidery on a dark blue ground within a blue border; lot 724.
the second pair are for a civil oficial of the fourth rank or below signifed by a
single crane in fight with a stalk of the sacred fungus in its beak, embroidered 韓國十九世紀 刺繡補子兩對
in polychrome silks on a dark blue ground amongst clouds and above cresting 來源:
waves within a blue border.
志道齋私人珍藏
The larger 103 x 113 in. (29 x 27.4 cm.)
(4)
£4,000-6,000 $5,700-8,400
€4,600-6,900

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