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badge, rank, fifth level

human history
  • Other Name

    insignia badge

    textile piece

    kossu

  • Description

    rank badge of wife of fifth rank civil official for the back of robe; cotton weave with metal thread, kossu; pale blue pheasant, looking up to the sun, on pattern of clouds, earth, sun, rocks, in blues and scarlet and gold thread; key pattern border, woven pattern with same printing? unfinished; identical to T31, except that T31 is pieced down the centre. Pattern included waves and sea. Bird more a crane than a pheasant, which is unfinished.

    Backed with green Jacquard silk

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1966.181
  • Other Id

    T30 (textile)

  • Department
rank badge, front

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