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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION,
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

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A RARE FIRST CIVIL OFFICIAL’S ‘CRANE ROUNDEL’ RANK AN EMBROIDERED BLUE GAUZE ‘NINE DRAGON’ ROBE
BADGE, BUZI Late Qing dynasty
17th/early 18th century Couched with nine dragons in gold-wrapped threads, against an
Densely embroidered in polychrome silk flosses and fine couched gold embroidered ground of auspicious emblems and clouds in polychrome
threads to present a crane under the ‘golden’ sun as it holds a lotus threads, all bordered by lishui stripes and terrestrial diagrams emerging
branch in its long beak atop a rock formation emerging from waves from churning waves, the sleeves terminating in horse-hoof cuffs, the
tossing precious jewels amidst auspicious, ruyi-shaped clouds, and collar band and cuffs similarly embroidered and edged with brocade
set off against a ground further rendered in couched gold threads, all borders.
enclosed within a scroll border; the square badge now trimmed to the 55in (139.7cm) long
upper corners and sewn with Ming dynasty kesi fragments, lined with a
black fabric border to form a stylized ruyi-head; mounted and glazed. $4,000 - 6,000
16in (40.8cm) long, overall of the textile
24 1/4 x 26 1/8in (61.5 x 66.3cm) the frame
清末 藍地納紗綉金龍紋吉服

$4,000 - 6,000 Provenance:
Monsoon Antiques, Hong Kong, 1985
十七世紀/十八世紀早期 一品文官繡仙鶴團紋補子

Provenance:
A Private Collector, Northern California

A nearly identical rank badge originally from the Julia St. Clair Krenz
Collection, now in the Collection of the New York Metropolitan
Museum of Art, has been exhibited in New York a number of times at
the museum including in year 1978, 2004, 2009, and 2010.

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