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PROPERTY FROM THE DAVID HUGUS COLLECTION
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A RARE EMBROIDERED GOLD-GROUND RANK BADGE OF A PROVENANCE:
PEACOCK, BUZI Jon Eric Riis, San Francisco, acquired prior to 2012.
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) LITERATURE:
Made for a third rank civil official, the badge is finely woven with a peacock D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the
perched on one leg with lengthy train cascading above waves, against a Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 73, no. 7.3 and cover.
couched-gold background with ruyi-form clouds, with details picked out in
peacock feather filament.
DAVID HUGUS 珍藏
13Ω x 13º in. (34.5 x 33.8 cm.)
清康熙 金地繡文三品孔雀方補
$18,000-25,000 來源:
Jon Eric Riis, 舊金山, 2012年以前入藏
出版:
D. Hugus, 《Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and
Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties》, 香港, 2021年, 頁 73, 編號 7.3 及封
面

PROPERTY FROM THE DAVID HUGUS
~850
A RARE AND FINELY EMBROIDERED GOLD-GROUND RANK A nearly identical Kangxi-period peacock badge with a similarly rendered
BADGE OF A PEACOCK, BUZI circular peacock is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1936,
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) no. 36.65.5.
Made for a third-rank civil official, the peacock is embroidered in multi-colored
satin stitch standing on a jagged rock emerging from waves tossed with DAVID HUGUS 珍藏
auspicious emblems in shades of white, blue, green, brown and coral. Details
of the bird’s tail plumage, rock formation, and surrounding border are worked 清康熙 金地繡文三品孔雀方補
in green peacock feather filament. 來源:
11¬ X 12 in. (29.5 x 30.3 cm.) David Hugus 珍藏, 美國, 2011年以前入藏
出版:
$20,000-30,000 D. Hugus 及 D. Yee, "Evolution of Yongzheng Rank Badges," Arts of Asia, 卷
41, January-February 2011年1-2月, 頁 67, 編號 3
PROVENANCE:
David Hugus Collection, United States, acquired prior to 2011. D. Hugus, 《Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and
Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties》, 香港, 2021年, 頁 75, 編號 7.12 及
LITERATURE: 封面
D. Hugus and D. Yee, "Evolution of Yongzheng Rank Badges," Arts of Asia, vol.
41, January-February 2011, p. 67, no. 3.
D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the
Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 75, no. 7.12 and cover.

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