Details
Comprising a pair of silver pheasant badges, a pair of mandarin duck badges, a mandarin duck badge, and a quail badge.
Largest: 1178 x 1258 in. (30.2 x 32 cm.)
Literature
Pair of silver pheasant badges:
B. Jackson and D. Hugus, Ladder to the Clouds, Berkeley, California, 1999, p. 157.
D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 22, fig. 2.20.

Pair of mandarin duck badges:
B. Jackson and D. Hugus, Ladder to the Clouds, Berkeley, California, 1999, p. 165.
D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 24, fig. 2.28, & p. 113, fig. 12.25 (one).

Mandarin duck badge: D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 110, fig. 12.17.

Quail badge: D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 25, fig. 2.32.
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