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~1205
A HARDSTONE AND CORAL-INSET GILT-
METAL NECKLACE, LINGYUE
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
With turquoise, malachite, coral, and lapis insets.
9¿ in. (23 cm.) across

$8,000-12,000
A lingyue, a necklace or a torque, was an essential
part of court dress for a noblewoman. As with the
majority of aspects of attire at the Imperial court,
these necklaces were highly regulated, and the
rank of the woman would determine the number
of stones in the composition of the necklace. This
necklace can be compared with a similar example
sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 November 2017,
lot 3032.

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A COUCHED GOLD AND EMBROIDERED
GAUZE `SHOU' ROUNDEL
JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820)
10¡ in. (26.4 cm.) diam.

$5,000-7,000
Couched gold and embroidered gauze roundels
1205 with shou characters are very rare and only one
related example appears to have been published
(see D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of
Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing
Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 122, no. 13.18 and
Christie's New York, 22-23 September 2022,
lot 862). For an example of a robe with similarly
rendered shou roundels featuring double chilong,
possibly made for the consort of the prince
second in line for the throne, see, D. Hugus,
Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth,
and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong
Kong, 2021, p. 123, fig. 13.19.

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~1207
AN EMBROIDERED GOLD-GROUND
RANK BADGE OF A CRANE, BUZI
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) 1207
Together with an embroidered blue-ground
fragment, late Qing dynasty.
12q x 12æ in. (31.8 x 32.5 cm.)
There are two main types of Kangxi period civil official’s badges. The first For a similar example of an early Kangxi period badge of a silver pheasant
$8,000-12,000 type features a bird with the wings in circular form and the second type with wings outstretched with a ground of couched gold threads in concentric
shows the bird in an upright position with wings outstretched, as can be patterns, see an example sold in The Imperial Wardrobe: Fine Chinese
PROVENANCE:
seen on the present badge. Both types usually have a background of couched Costume and Textiles from the Linda Wrigglesworth Collection; Christie's
Acquired in New York, August 2012.
gold-wrapped threads, but on earlier Kangxi badges the metallic thread New York, 19 March 2008, lot 28. For an example of a later Kangxi badge of
清康熙ǎ金ঃ彩❚ˏ品文官仙鶴補子 outlines each motif in concentric patterns and by the end of the Kangxi an egret with wings outstretched, but on a ground of couched gold threads of
period, the concentric patterns are replaced by straight horizontal lines. straight horizontal lines, see an example illustrated by C. Hall et al., Heaven's
Ϝ源
Embroidered Cloths: One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles, Hong Kong,
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年 月 Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 294-95.

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