Two Americans in Paris, The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers
Two Americans in Paris, The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers
A rare fifth-rank civil official's 'double silver pheasant' rank badge, buzi Ming dynasty, 17th century | 明十七世紀 刺綉五品文官白鷳紋補子
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A rare fifth-rank civil official's 'double silver pheasant' rank badge, buzi
Ming dynasty, 17th century
明十七世紀 刺綉五品文官白鷳紋補子
colourfully embroidered with a pair of confronted silver pheasants, the lower one standing on prism-like rocks issuing from rolling waves embroidered in silk floss using long stitches and couched threads, all amidst five-coloured ruyi clouds, all on a ground of dark blue silk
39 by 38.5 cm, 15⅜ by 15⅛ in.
Corsini Collection, Florence.
Corsini收藏，佛羅倫薩
John E.Vollmer, Silk for Thrones and Altars, Chinese Costumes and Textiles from the Liao through the Qing dynasty, Myrna Myers, 2003, Paris, no. 11.
Jean-Paul Desroches, Two Americans in Paris: A Quest for Asian Art, 2016, Paris, no. 355.
John E.Vollmer編《Silk for Thrones and Altars， Chinese Costumes and Textiles from the Liao through the Qing dynasty》，Myrna Myers，2003年，巴黎，圖版11
Jean-Paul Desroches編《Two Americans in Paris，A Quest for Asian Art》，2016年，巴黎，圖版355
This striking badge probably belongs to a large group comprising of over thirty similar silk badges, mainly representing lions, silver pheasants and egrets, once sewn into a large hanging or canopy in Palazzo Corsini, Florence, possibly made in Tibet.
A similar embroidered silk 'double silver pheasants' badge, 16th/17th century, is illustrated by J.Vollmer, Silks For Thrones and Altars: Chinese Costumes and Textiles from the Liao Through the Qing Dynasty, Paris, 2003, no.11 and 12.