细节
A PAIR OF KESI CIVIL OFFICIAL'S RANK BADGES OF A SILVER PHEASANT, BUZI
18TH CENTURY
Made for a civil official of the fifth rank, each woven with a silver pheasant (baixian) surrounded by clouds that also envelop the sun, the bird standing on a rock in a rocky landscape above waves tossed with 'precious objects' in the foreground and in front of a grassy promontory in the background, with a pagoda perched in the rocks to the right from which rushes a waterfall, and peonies and a pine tree growing from the rocks on the left, all against a black ground and woven in shades of red, blue, pink, olive-gold, pale brown, mauve and white, with some painted black detailing and within a narrow border of couched gold thread
9¼ x 10 3/8 in. (23.5 x 26.4 cm.), mounted, lucite frames (2)
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