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IMPERIAL CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART FROM THE
DETRING/VON HANNEKEN COLLECTION
AN ORDER OF THE DOUBLE DRAGON
SET OF INSIGNIA
LATE QING DYNASTY

Second Type (1902-1912), Second Class, First Grade, set
of insignia comprising a five-point sash badge, in silver and
turquoise enamel, with a central engraved coral, and a breast
star, in silver, silver-gilt and enamels, inlaid with a central
engraved coral and a smaller plain coral above, the reverse
plain and fitted with a vertical brooch-pin, with Western-style
plum-coloured sash
badge width: 4.70 cm, 1⅞
star width: 9.5 cm, 3¾ in.
PROVENANCE
Possibly awarded to Gustav Detring (1842-1913), and thence by
descent.
EXHIBITED
Sash badge and sash: Tianjin Museum, Tianjin (2006-2018).

◉ £ 3,000-5,000
HK$ 30,400-51,000 US$ 3,900-6,500
清末 全套御賜二等第一雙龍寶星及綬帶
來源
89 德璀琳(1842-1913)收藏， 自此家族傳承
89 展覽
綬帶及佩帶副寳星： 天津博物館（2006年至2018年）
IMPERIAL CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART FROM THE
DETRING/VON HANNEKEN COLLECTION
AN ORDER OF THE DOUBLE DRAGON
MEDAL
LATE QING DYNASTY

First or Transitional type (circa 1896), Third Class, First Grade,
uniface neck badge in silver gilt, with two dragons flanking a
central rough-cut blue stone against a turquoise enamelled
ground, fitted with a double-sided suspension of European
style including a link in the form of two fish, suspended from a
Chinese embroidered double dragon neck riband in blue
width: 5.50 cm, 2⅛ in.
PROVENANCE
Possibly awarded to Gustav Detring (1842-1913), and thence
by descent.
This medal is extremely rare and was probably commissioned
by Li Hongzhang (1823-1901) during his visit to Europe in 1986.
Several aspects suggest it was an experimental piece, such as the
European style, the probability that Detring and von Hanneken
had both already received Second Class insignia of the Order at
by the time of its creation, and its rarity. A comparable badge, but
without any trace of it ever having had a central stone, and gifted
to the American Numismatic Society by Harrold E. Gillingham in
1925, was sold at Morton & Eden London, 26th April 2007, lot 42.

£ 6,000-8,000
HK$ 61,000-81,500 US$ 7,800-10,400
清末 御賜三等第一雙龍寶星及頸帶
來源: 據傳授予德璀琳(1842-1913)， 自此家族傳承 90

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