Details
Comprising a pair of embroidered couched gold mandarin duck badges and an embroidered and counted stich silver pheasant badge.
Largest: 12 x 1134 in. (30.5 x 29.8 cm.)
Literature
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. 108, fig. 12.11 (one).
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