A pair of embroidered rank badges of the fifth civil rank


Late Qing dynastyDepicting separately embroidered silver pheasants applied onto the split-front and solid-back rank badges embroidered in polychrome, silver and gilt-wrapped threads with clouds in shades of blue and a sun of tiny coral beads above a lishui border, framed along the edges with alternating bats and shou medallions; each now elaborately matted, framed and glazed.12 x 12 3/8in (30.5 x 31.5cm) each badge [sight]19 x 19 1/4in (48 x 49cm) each frame
|Please note that these badges have not been examined outside of their frames.