A Pair of Embroidered Silk Rank Badges (Hyungbae)
Lot 197

A Pair of Embroidered Silk Rank Badges (Hyungbae)

JOSEON DYNASTY (CIRCA 1900)

Closed11 September 2012

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A Pair of Embroidered Silk Rank Badges (Hyungbae)
Joseon dynasty (circa 1900)
For a civil official of the fourth rank and below, embroidered in polychrome silk on a navy blue silk ground with a single crane flying with a stalk of pulloch'o sacred fungus in its beak amongst multicolored clouds above cresting waves
7½ x 6¾in. (19 x 17.2cm.) each, framed and glazed (2)

Specialist note

For another rank badge, see Young Yang Chung, The Art of Oriental Embroidery (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983), pl. C-30.