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A rare first civil official's 'crane roundel' rank badge, buzi
17th/early 18th century

Chinese Works of Art
18 March 2019, 10:00 EDT
New York

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A rare first civil official's 'crane roundel' rank badge, buzi

17th/early 18th century
Densely embroidered in polychrome silk flosses and fine couched gold threads to present a crane under the 'golden' sun as it holds a lotus branch in its long beak atop a rock formation emerging from waves tossing precious jewels amidst auspicious, ruyi-shaped clouds, and set off against a ground further rendered in couched gold threads, all enclosed within a scroll border; the square badge now trimmed to the upper corners and sewn with Ming dynasty kesi fragments, lined with a black fabric border to form a stylized ruyi-head; mounted and glazed.
16in (40.8cm) long, overall of the textile
24 1/4 x 26 1/8in (61.5 x 66.3cm) the frame

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十七世紀/十八世紀早期 一品文官繡仙鶴團紋補子

Provenance:
A Private Collector, Northern California

A nearly identical rank badge originally from the Julia St. Clair Krenz Collection, now in the Collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been exhibited in New York a number of times at the museum including in year 1978, 2004, 2009, and 2010.

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