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Lot *93
A PAIR OF RANK BADGES (BUZI) WITH WILD GOOSE
Estimated Value:
3.000 € - 5.000 €
Schätzpreis:
3.000 €
Description:
China, Qing dynasty, middle to last third of 19th ct.30 x 30 cm
Black silk satin embroidered with gold and silver threads in appliqué technique. Lining: strong blue silk. The wild goose, symbol of the fourth civil rank, stands on a rock in waves with clouds above the diagonal lines of deep water. In the waves a fish and the Buddhist snail horn are shown. The bird faces upward to the sun on the left, surrounded by dense spiral tendrils with clouds stylized in the form of ruyi. On the side rocks blooming lotus. These are also set in the frame between dense spiral tendrils.
The bird is identifiable by the design of its head, tail feathers and body feathers stylized as double strokes. The embroidery filling the entire background exclusively executed with appliquéd gold and silver threads is characteristic of the later 19th century. The contrast between the two metallic colors was used here in a sophisticated way.
From an old South German private collection, assembled between 1970 and 2002
Cf.: Four rank badges with wild goose, Jackson/Hugus: Ladder to the Clouds, 1999, p. 154
Very minor traces of age, good condition
