A PAIR OF RANK BADGES WITH SILVER PHEASANT FOR THE FIFTH RANK

Description:

China, 2nd half 19th c.
ca. 31 x 32,5 cm
White silk gauze (sha), embroidered with colored silk in counted stitches and appliqué technique for the outlines. The pair of rank insignia with silver pheasant symbolizing the fifth civil court rank was completed but never used. The bird stands on a rock in waves, surrounded by the Eight Buddhist Precious, of which he holds the canopy in his beak. Between the clouds five bats. The background is filled by a dense swastika grid, the frame with bats and Shou medallions. Attached is a paper with an inscription.
Former Stuttgart private collection, acquired in the 1950s - Cf. Rank badge with leopard and otherwise similar, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Inv. No. 30.75.985. - Good, hardly any traces of age, unused