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A RARE EMBROIDERED SILK ‘DOUBLE The present badge was probably part of a A VERY RARE CIVIL OFFICIAL’S ‘GOOSE’
SILVER PHEASANT’ RANK BADGE large group comprising over thirty similar RANK BADGE, BUZI
17th century silk badges, mainly representing lions, silver Kangxi
The badge for a fifth-rank civil official colourfully pheasants and egrets, once sewn into a large Made for a fourth-rank civil official, the elegant
embroidered with a pair of confronted silver curtain or canopy in Palazzo Corsini, Florence. bird worked in gold satin stitch and black
pheasants, the lower one standing on tips standing on a rock emerging from waves
prism-like rocks issuing from rolling waves The bold design of the present badge, with tossed with jewels, focused towards the sun
embroidered in silk floss using long stitches large lozenge-shaped clouds and prism-like disk and surrounded by wispy ruyi clouds and
and couched threads, all amidst five-coloured rocks, reflects aesthetic developments of the the sun finely worked in satin stitch in shades
ruyi clouds worked in red, blue, green, yellow later phases of the Ming dynasty. of blue, green, charcoal and coral, all slightly
and pink, further embellished at the centre with raised and reserved on a rich ground of
gold thread, the edges raised over an under- During the 17th century, under pressure from couched gold threads, within an added blue
thread to convey a three-dimensional effect, the Manchu to institute their own style of brocade border, mounted.
all on a ground of dark blue silk with a twisted court attire, the shape of the buzi or insignia 39cm (15 3/8in) x 38cm (15in).
thread for a matt effect, mounted. badges, became more exactly square.
38cm (15in) x 36cm (14 1/2in). £10,000 - 15,000
A similar embroidered silk ‘double silver CNY90,000 - 140,000
£4,000 - 6,000 pheasants’ badge, 16th/17th century, is
CNY36,000 - 54,000 illustrated by J.Vollmer, Silks For Thrones and 清康熙 刺繡雲雁紋四品文官補子
Altars: Chinese Costumes and Textiles from
the Liao Through the Qing Dynasty, Paris,
十七世紀 刺繡白鷴紋五品文官補子 2003, no.11, pp.36-37. Provenance: Linda Wrigglesworth, London
A distinguished French private collection
Provenance: Myrna Myers, Paris, 2006 A similar silk court ‘double pheasant’ rank
A distinguished French private collection badge, 17th century, was sold at Bonhams 來源：倫敦Linda Wrigglesworth
London, 7 November 2019, lot 126. 法國傑出私人收藏
來源：2006年，巴黎古董商Myrna Myers
法國傑出私人收藏
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