A group of embroidered textile fragments and a rank badgeLate Qing dynasty
Compressing an ivory ground silk sleeve band embroidered with figures in a pleasant garden, three pieces of embroidered gauze bands cut from a robe, a pair of kesi horseshoe-form cuffs from a dragon robe, and a two-section civil rank badge with a separately applied paradise flycatcher surrounded by densely embroidered lingzhi clouds and Buddhist emblems between symbolic cosmological diagrams, all above a wide lishui border enclosed by shou and bat medallions.
11 x 11in (28 x 28cm) face of rank badge (7).