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A Golden Pheasant
Last quarter 19th c

Unusual having the outline in coloured silks. The beak and legs are in coral silks worked in a dense stitch to resemble coral.


Cataloguing

a second civil official's rank badge, buzi couched in gold thread on a black silk ground, the bird's wings outlined and couched in green silk, his legs and beak in orange, standing on a rocky outcrop staring at the sun, the sky and waves with Buddhist symbols and emblems of the Eight Immortals, backed with mid blue silk damask, 11 1/2 in or 29 cm square


Condition

Very good.