A rare Chinese embroidered rank badge, buzi, 17th century, depicting a lion, from the group of badges known as the Corsini collection, one corner has been married and some selvage, a yellow chord is present, 37cm x 37 cm Provenance: Property of an English collector, mainly buying in Portobello market, and various places in London, in the early 1950's and 1960's. The present badge was part of a large group comprising over thirty similar silk badges, mainly representing lions and silver pheasants, once sewn into a large curtain or canopy from the collection of the Palazzo Corsini, Florence. It has been suggested that these badges were likely to have been assembled in Tibet to form a large hanging or a canopy. For published examples of similar Ming badges from the Corsini group see C. Hall, et al., One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles, Hong Kong, 1995, pp.66-68; see also J.Vollmer, Silks For Thrones and Altars: Chinese Costumes and Textiles from the Liao Through the Qing Dynasty, Paris, 2003, no.12, pp.36-37. See also C. Hall, Power Dressing: Textiles for Rulers and Priests from the Chris Hall Collection, Singapore, 2006, p.240, no.69. A similar badge was sold at Christie's NY, Lot 19, 19 March 2008 明十七世纪 二品武官补子 拍品来源：英国私人收藏，上世纪五六十年代购自Portobello市场等地。该补子为佛罗伦萨科西尼宫柯西尼家族所藏三十多件补子中的一件，全组补子曾被织成一个大型挂毯悬挂于柯西尼宫之中。