Details
Comprising an embroidered peacock badge and a counted stitch on blue-ground gauze wild goose badge.
The larger: 912 x 1018 in. (24.1 x 25.8 cm.)
Literature
Peacock badge: D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 82, fig. 8.14.

Wild goose badge:
B. Jackson and D. Hugus, Ladder to the Clouds, Berkeley, California, 1999, p. 292.
D. Hugus, Chinese Rank Badges: Symbols of Power, Wealth, and Intellect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2021, p. 88, fig. 9.10.
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