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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
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A RARE MILITARY OFFICIAL’S RANK large hanging or canopy, possibly made up in Tibet. Similar badges are
illustrated by Vollmer, ibid., nos. 11 and 12.
BADGE OF A LION, BUZI Lion badges from the same group have been published. One from a
LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY private European collection, J. Vollmer, Silks for Thrones and Altars:
Made for a second rank military official, embroidered with a lion Chinese Costumes and Textiles from the Liao through the Qing dynasty,
Paris, 2003, no. 12, pp. 36-7. See, also, the example illustrated by C.
with green mane and tail shown seated amidst multicoloured Hall et. al., Power Dressing: Textiles for Rulers and Priests from the Chris
clouds and flames atop a rock amidst waves with head turned to Hall Collection, Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore, 2006, p. 240,
the side and mouth open in a roar to show its fangs, all worked in no. 69.
vibrant shades of green, orange, blue, yellow and white couched
silk floss and couched gold threads on an unusual twisted blue silk 晚明 刺繡二品武官獅子補子
thread ground.
15 º in. (38.5 cm.) square
來源
HK$150,000-250,000 US$20,000-32,000 科西尼宮，佛羅倫斯（傳）
Myrna Myers 藝廊，巴黎，2006年
PROVENANCE
Palazzo Corsini, Florence (by repute) 歐洲私人珍藏
Myrna Myers Gallery, Paris, 2006
此件補子極可能源自佛羅倫斯科西尼宮舊藏。科西尼宮曾將 30 多件風
Second rank military officers were assigned square lion badges which 格類似，以獅子紋及仙鶴紋為主的補子繡於一件大掛屏上，見沃約翰
were applied to the chest and back of their official robes worn at the 著《Silks for Thrones and Altars, Chinese Costumes and Textiles》，巴
Ming dynasty court. This bold design with large lozenge-shaped clouds,
prism-like rocks and rolling waves, reflects the aesthetic developments 黎，2003 年，頁 36 的討論，及同書圖版 11 及 12 號。類似的獅子補
of the later Ming period. This colourful, striking badge belongs to a 子可參考歐洲私人珍藏一件，見《Silks for Thrones and Altars: Chinese
group of similar badges that were reportedly from the collection of the Costumes and Textiles from the Liao through the Qing dynasty》,
Palazzo Corsini in Florence. According to J. Vollmer, Silks for Thrones 巴黎，2003 年，頁 36-37，圖版 12；及 Chris Hall 珍藏一件，見
and Altars, Chinese Costumes and Textiles, Myrna Myers, Paris, 2003, 《Power Dressing: Textiles for Rulers and Priests from the Chris Hall
p. 36, over thirty similar badges, primarily depicting either paired silver
pheasants or lions, such as the present badge, were assembled in a Collection》，2006 年，頁 240，圖版 69。
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