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Antique Chinese Gold Couching Paradise Flycatcher Bird 9th Rank Badge Pair. Tweet
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This antique Chinese gold couching paradise flycatcher bird 9th rank badge pair dates from 1923. It is made of a black silk background, with gold metallic thread couching embroidery work, which tiny red stitches hold the couching work together giving it a contrasting copper color appearance. There is a paradise flycatcher bird in the center, with clouds, a sun disk on the left for a male badge and waves of water embroidered on the bottom. The buzi badge is of the paradise flycatcher which is the symbol of the ninth civil rank badge. This unused pair of badges are attached at the bottom and would have been folded, sewn together made into a purse or pillow, perhaps for the tourist market. It is fully lined backed inside in blue silk, with black ink Chinese characters and dated 1923. Each badge measures 10 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches and is in good unused condition. This is a wonderful piece of antique Chinese textile art!
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