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A RARE EMBROIDERED CIVIL OFFICIAL A GROUP OF FIVE RANK BADGES AND
‘PEACOCK’ RANK BADGE, BUZI A ‘DRAGON’ ROBE FRAGMENT
Kangxi It is rare to find extant examples of civil rank 19th century
Made for a civil official of the third rank, badges dating to the Kangxi period. During Comprising: a civil sixth rank badge depicting
worked in satin stitch and couched gold the mid-17th century, the placement of rank a lesser egret, woven in silk and couched
thread, the peacock, kongque, depicted in badges changed from display on court robes gold thread; a pair of lesser egret badges
a circular form surrounded by ruyi-shaped to a surcoat worn over them, due to pressure woven in gold, blue and cream silk threads; a
clouds above a pierced rock emerging from from the Manchu to institute their own style further gold thread lesser egret badge; a civil
waves with ‘precious objects’, all worked of court attire. The shape of buzi, insignia fifth rank badge for a child’s robe depicting
in tones of blue, green, coral and white silk badges, became more exactingly square. a silver pheasant - four badges framed and
thread, reserved against the rich couched glazed; and a blue ground silk dragon robe
gold thread ground. For further Kangxi examples of ‘peacock’ fragment.
27.2cm x 26.6cm (10.3/4in x 10.1/2in). rank badges with the peacock in medallion The robe fragment 118cm x 72cm (46.1/2in
form, see Christie’s New York, 14 September x 28.3/8in). (6).
£5,000 - 7,000 2012, lot 1317; Christie’s Hong Kong,
HK$54,000 - 75,000 26 November 2014, lot 3416; and the £2,000 - 3,000
CNY45,000 - 63,000 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, HK$21,000 - 32,000
Accession Number: 36.65.5. CNY18,000 - 27,000
Provenance
An English Private Collection and thence by Provenance
descent. An English Private Collection and thence by
descent.

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