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PROPERTY FROM THE ZHIDAO ZHAI COLLECTION
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TWO PAIRS OF KOREAN SILK EMBROIDERED RANK BADGES, A Korean rank badge with two tiger-leopards ofered together with a badge
HYUNG BAE with a single leopard, both from the Robert Moore Collection of Korean Art,
JOSEON DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY sold at Christies’ New York, 18 March 2014, lot 724.
The frst pair of rank badges are for a military oficer signifed by two white 韓國十九世紀 刺繡補子兩對
tiger-leopards with brown spots amongst clouds and cresting waves worked
in polychrome silk embroidery on a dark blue ground; the second pair are for a 來源:
civil oficial signifed by two cranes in fight with a stalk of the sacred fungus
in its beak, embroidered in polychrome silks on a dark blue ground amongst 志道齋私人珍藏
clouds and above cresting waves.
The larger 11½ x 107 in. (29.3 x 27.7 cm.)
(4)
£6,000-10,000 $8,500-14,000
€6,900-11,000
292 Other fees apply in addition to the hammer price – see Section D of our Conditions of Sale at the back of this Catalogue
