Details
Comprising a pair of paradise flycatcher badges, a crane badge, and a mandarin duck badge.
Largest: 1158 x 1214 in. (29 x 30.5 cm.)
Literature
Paradise flycatcher badges: D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 26, fig. 2.34.

Mandarin duck badge:
B. Jackson and D. Hugus, Ladder to the Clouds, Berkeley, California, 1999, p. 266.
D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 105, fig. 12.1.
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