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A RARE EMBROIDERED ‘DOUBLE-GEESE’ BADGE
17th century
The badge for a Fourth-Rank civil official colourfully embroidered with
a pair of confronted geese, the lower one standing on prism-like rocks
issuing from rolling waves embroidered in silk floss using long stitches
and couched threads, all amidst ruyi clouds worked in red, blue, green,
yellow and pink, further embellished at the centre with gold thread,
the edges raised over an under-thread to convey a three-dimensional
effect, all on a ground of dark blue silk with a twisted thread for a matt
effect, mounted.
36cm (14 1/8in) x 36.3cm (14 2/8in).
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 53,000
十七世紀 刺繡雲雁紋四品文官補子

Provenance: Linda Wrigglesworth, London
A distinguished Belgian private collection

來源：倫敦Linda Wrigglesworth
法國顯赫私人收藏

The present badge was part of a large group comprising over thirty
similar silk badges, mainly representing lions, silver pheasants and
egrets, once sewn into a large curtain or canopy, in Palazzo Corsini,
Florence.
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The bold design of the present badge, with large lozenge-shaped
clouds and prism-like rocks, reflects aesthetic developments during
the later Ming dynasty. During the 17th century, under pressure from
the Manchu to institute their own style of Court attire, the shape of the
buzi or insignia badges became more exactly square. This example
shows a fine thread original border. A similarly-embroidered silk ‘double
silver pheasants’ badge, 16th/17th century, is illustrated by J.Vollmer,
Silks For Thrones and Altars: Chinese Costumes and Textiles from the
Liao Through the Qing Dynasty, Paris, 2003, no.11, pp.36-37. Two
related silk Court ‘double pheasant’ rank badges, 17th century, were
sold at Bonhams London, respectively on 7 November 2019, lot 126,
and 13 May 2021, lot 79.

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A SILK EMBROIDERED BUDDHIST TIARA
Ming Dynasty
The five-pointed diadem finely embroidered with gold and polychrome
silk threads with five panels, each depicting one of the Five
Transcendental Buddhas, namely Amithaba, Vairocana, Akshobya,
Ratnasambhava and Amoghasiddhi, all seated in dhyanasana above
a blossoming lotus and within a border of wispy clouds, the sections
joined at the lower edge by a silk band.
61cm (24in) wide.

£800 - 1,200
CNY7,100 - 11,000
明 五佛冠

Provenance: Linda Wrigglesworth, London 269

來源：倫敦Linda Wrigglesworth
A related silk embroidered Buddhist ritual diadem, 15th century,
is illustrated in Weaving China’s Past. The Amy Clague Collection
of Chinese Textiles, Phoenix, AZ, 2000, p.122, no.20; see also
two related silk ritual diadems, 15th and 17th century, illustrated
in Heaven’s Embroidered Cloths. One Thousand Years of Chinese
Textiles, Hong Kong, 1995, pp.190-193, nos.50 and 51.

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