A pair of first civil rank badges of dark blue satin with the Crane worked in coloured silks and couched metal threads, the plummage embellished with seed pearls, among bats in Peking knot and clouds, peonies and peaches in coloured silks, over a sea-wave, within a fretwork border of couched gilt threads, both rear badges--12in. square (30cm), Chinese, 19th/20th century