05-04-202205-05-2022
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  • Pair of Rank Badge Backgrounds

    Pair of Rank Badge Backgrounds

    Lot: 1
    Sold for: $406$325

    Pair of Rank Badge Backgrounds, China, 19th century, five bats amid ruyi-form clouds above waves in shades of blue encircled by a round border of clouds, overlapping an outer meander border, in a more ...

  • Pair of Rank Badge Backgrounds

    Pair of Rank Badge Backgrounds

    Lot: 2
    Sold for: $531$425

    Pair of Rank Badge Backgrounds, China, late 19th/early 20th century, embroidered with a peony tree and a magnolia tree, with ruyi-form clouds above, rolling waves below, and lishui stripes, with a more ...

  • Embroidered Military Rank Badge

    Embroidered Military Rank Badge

    Lot: 3
    Sold for: $3,375$2,700

    Embroidered Military Rank Badge, China, late 19th century, depicting a lion signifying the second rank, surrounded by ruyi-head clouds, flowers, and peaches, with Buddhist treasures combined with more ...

  • Embroidered Military Rank Badge

    Embroidered Military Rank Badge

    Lot: 4
    Sold for: $2,750$2,200

    Embroidered Military Rank Badge, China, 19th century, depicting a lion signifying the second rank, surrounded by ruyi-head clouds, flowers, and peaches, with Buddhist treasures in the rolling waves more ...

  • Woven Military Rank Badge

    Woven Military Rank Badge

    Lot: 5
    Sold for: $1,125$900

    Woven Military Rank Badge, China, late 19th century, depicting a lion signifying the second rank, surrounded by ruyi-head clouds, over a ground of stylized flower patterns, above crashing waves and more ...

  • Embroidered Civil Rank Badge

    Embroidered Civil Rank Badge

    Lot: 6
    Sold for: $938$750

    Embroidered Civil Rank Badge, China, late 19th/early 20th century, depicting a wild goose signifying the fourth rank, appliqued to the badge background with ruyi-head clouds and five bats, standing more ...

  • Pair of Rank Badges

    Pair of Rank Badges

    Lot: 7
    Sold for: $813$650

    Pair of Rank Badges, China, 19th/20th century, depicting silver pheasants signifying the fifth rank, surrounded by stylized clouds, peonies and peaches on a dark blue silk ground above crashing more ...

  • Embroidered Rank Badge

    Embroidered Rank Badge

    Lot: 8
    Sold for: $406$325

    Embroidered Rank Badge, China, early 20th century, depicting a silver pheasant signifying the fifth rank, surrounded by a stylized cloud motif with Buddhist Emblems, above a border of waves and more ...

  • Pair of Embroidered Civil Rank Badges

    Pair of Embroidered Civil Rank Badges

    Lot: 9
    Sold for: $1,750$1,400

    Pair of Embroidered Civil Rank Badges, China, 19th century, depicting egrets signifying the sixth rank, surrounded by stylized clouds and scrolling tendrils, and the attributes of the Eight more ...

  • Pair of Rank Badges

    Pair of Rank Badges

    Lot: 10
    Sold for: $500$400

    Pair of Rank Badges, China, 19th/20th century, depicting flycatchers signifying the ninth rank, surrounded by stylized clouds and flowers, and above waves and lishui stripes, with a scrolling floral more ...

  • Pair of Embroidered Civil Rank Badges

    Pair of Embroidered Civil Rank Badges

    Lot: 11
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    Pair of Embroidered Civil Rank Badges, China, 19th/20th century, depicting flycatchers signifying the ninth civil rank, surrounded by stylized clouds and auspicious objects, above crashing waves and more ...

  • Embroidered Civil Rank Badge

    Embroidered Civil Rank Badge

    Lot: 12
    Sold for: $625$500

    Embroidered Civil Rank Badge, China, 19th/20th century, depicting a flycatcher signifying the ninth civil rank, appliqued to a background of ruyi-form clouds above lishui stripes, the flycatcher more ...

  • Embroidered Semi-formal Dragon Robe

    Embroidered Semi-formal Dragon Robe

    Lot: 13
    Sold for: $3,750$3,000

    Embroidered Semi-formal Dragon Robe, China, 19th century, embroidered with nine dragons surrounded by stylized clouds, shou symbols, and Daoist Emblems above crashing waves and lishui stripes, all more ...

  • Kesi

    Kesi

    Lot: 14
    Sold for: $5,938$4,750

    Kesi Informal Woman's Robe, China, 19th century, pale blue-green silk woven with butterflies interspersed with sprays of prunus blossom and other flowers, trimmed with a contrasting border of gourds more ...

  • Kesi Crane Roundel Informal Robe

    Kesi Crane Roundel Informal Robe

    Lot: 15
    Sold for: $10,625$8,500

    Kesi Crane Roundel Informal Robe, China, late 19th/early 20th century, the dark blue ground woven with eight roundels containing cranes holding lingzhi mushrooms amid butterflies and floral sprays, more ...

  • Embroidered Informal Robe

    Embroidered Informal Robe

    Lot: 16
    Sold for: $2,000$1,600

    Embroidered Informal Robe, China, 19th century, dark blue silk ground embroidered with moths, peonies, and fruits, in a variety of stitches including satin stitch and "forbidden stitch," with more ...

  • Embroidered Informal Robe

    Embroidered Informal Robe

    Lot: 17
    Sold for: $875$700

    Embroidered Informal Robe, China, early 20th century, decorated with peonies and dahlias in couched gold thread on a dark blue ground, with rolling wave and solid gold striped borders below and at more ...

  • Embroidered Long Vest

    Embroidered Long Vest

    Lot: 18
    Sold for: $5,625$4,500

    Embroidered Long Vest, China, 19th century, embroidered with butterflies and cranes alternating with combined gourd, leaf, and vine motifs on a dark blue silk pinstriped ground, trimmed with a more ...

  • Embroidered Semi-official Wedding Robe

    Embroidered Semi-official Wedding Robe

    Lot: 19
    Sold for: $1,125$900

    Embroidered Semi-official Wedding Robe, China, 19th century, decorated with eight dragons amid ruyi-head clouds with peonies and bats, all above a rolling wave and lishui stripe border, all in satin more ...

  • Embroidered Informal Woman's Jacket

    Embroidered Informal Woman's Jacket

    Lot: 20
    Sold for: $2,250$1,800

    Embroidered Informal Woman's Jacket, China, 19th/20th century, pale yellow silk with a woven cloud motif, trimmed with contrasting blue borders embroidered with cranes and various plants, the more ...

  • Pleated Apron Skirt, Baizhequn

    Pleated Apron Skirt, Baizhequn

    Lot: 21
    Sold for: $750$600

    Pleated Apron Skirt, Baizhequn, China, late 19th/early 20th century, mauve silk embroidered with rectangular panels of butterflies and peonies, the pleats embellished with similar motifs, trimmed more ...

  • Pleated Apron Skirt, Baizhequn

    Pleated Apron Skirt, Baizhequn

    Lot: 22
    Sold for: $1,125$900

    Pleated Apron Skirt, Baizhequn, China, late 19th/early 20th century, mauve silk embroidered with a rectangular panel of pairs of birds and peonies all on a couched gold thread embroidered ground, more ...

  • Embroidered Panel from an Informal Robe

    Embroidered Panel from an Informal Robe

    Lot: 23
    Sold for: $2,250$1,800

    Embroidered Panel from an Informal Robe, China, 19th century, rectangular with four roundels containing peonies, butterflies and various flowers, above rolling waves with floating precious objects, more ...

  • Fragment of a Brocade Dragon Robe

    Fragment of a Brocade Dragon Robe

    Lot: 24
    Sold for: $625$500

    Fragment of a Brocade Dragon Robe, China, possibly 18th century, woven to depict a side-facing dragon, probably the front right panel from a robe, the five-clawed dragon clutching a pearl amid more ...

  • Two Brocade Fragments

    Two Brocade Fragments

    Lot: 25
    Sold for: $750$600

    Two Brocade Fragments, China, 19th century, one woven with flowers, fruit, and fans in shades of blue and gold, the other interlocking geometric patterns in gold with accents of blue, size to 26 1/2 more ...

  • Fragment of a Velvet Brocade Robe

    Fragment of a Velvet Brocade Robe

    Lot: 26
    Sold for: $2,250$1,800

    Fragment of a Velvet Brocade Robe, China, possibly 17th/18th century, a central front-facing four-clawed mang dragon clutching a flaming pearl, two side-facing dragons below, above a border of more ...

  • Brocade Panel Depicting Shishi

    Brocade Panel Depicting Shishi

    Lot: 27
    Sold for: $3,000$2,400

    Brocade Panel Depicting Shishi, China, 18th/19th century, possibly part of a chair cover, with a pair of side-facing shishi standing playfully by a ribboned ball, the corners with clouds and lingzhi more ...

  • Embroidered Table Frontal

    Embroidered Table Frontal

    Lot: 28
    Sold for: $1,625$1,300

    Embroidered Table Frontal, China, 19th century, a narrow horizontal band above a square panel, dark blue silk ground decorated with floral sprays including peony, lotus, prunus, and dahlias, trimmed more ...

  • Embroidered Shou

    Embroidered Shou

    Lot: 29
    Sold for: $1,625$1,300

    Embroidered Shou and Immortals Hanging, China, 19th century, rectangular apricot silk ground decorated with the Eight Daoist Immortals on a blue textured embroidered ground in the form of a shou more ...

  • Embroidered Couch or Throne Cover

    Embroidered Couch or Throne Cover

    Lot: 30
    Sold for: $6,250$5,000

    Embroidered Couch or Throne Cover, China, 18th/19th century, rectangular yellow silk with rounded edges, a central peony surrounded by lotus flowers, bats, and scrolling leaves, bordered by further more ...