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THE PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN

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A PAIR OF EMBROIDERED SATIN MILITARY OFFICIAL’S RANK
BADGES OF BEARS, BUZI

19TH CENTURY

Each badge is worked in satin stitch with a bear standing on rocks

above crashing waves tossed with Buddhist emblems worked in

Peking knot, all amidst blossoming peach, prunus, peony and lingzhi

growing from rocks, and beneath ruyi-form clouds interspersed with

bats, in shades of red, peach, blue, white, and yellow.

10º x 10æ in. (26 x 27.3 cm.), mounted (2)

$4,000-6,000

清十九世紀 緞地繡武五品熊補子一對

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A SILK MILITARY RANK BADGE OF A PANTHER, BUZI
19TH CENTURY

Made for a civil offcial of the sixth rank, the badge is worked in
Peking knot and couched gold thread with a panther (bao) standing
on a rock formation above undulating waves interspersed with
auspicious symbols and beneath clouds and bats, all surrounded by an
outer border of alternating fower scroll, key fret, and bats.
12º x 11√ in. (31.1 x 30 cm.)

2069 $4,000-6,000 刺繡武六品豹補子

96 清十九世紀