Details
Comprising a pair of bear badges for a military official, a tiger badge for a military official, and a silver pheasant badge for a civil official.
Largest: 12 x 1212 in. (30.2 x 31 cm.)
Provenance
Silver pheasant badge: Linda Wrigglesworth, late 1990s-early 2000s.
Literature
Bear badges: D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 94, fig. 10.5.

Tiger badge:
D. Hugus, “Mandarin Squares: The Evolution During the Qing Dynasty Jiaqing Period,” Arts of Asia, vol. 29, September-October 1999, p. 93, no. 3.
B. Jackson and D. Hugus, Ladder to the Clouds, Berkeley, California, 1999, p. 250.
D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 34, fig. 3.14.

Silver pheasant badge:
D. Hugus, “Mandarin Squares: The Evolution During the Qing Dynasty Jiaqing Period,” Arts of Asia, vol. 29, September-October 1999, p. 95, no. 6.
B. Jackson and D. Hugus, Ladder to the Clouds, Berkeley, California, 1999, p. 253.
D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 95, fig. 10.8.
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