Rank badge (buzi)
date: label: Date
content: Ming dynasty 1368–1644
notes: label: Description
content: Most of a Ming dynasty First Rank square showing a pair of cranes with spread wings arched across a gold sky filled with brightly colored attenuated cloud streamers. Birds are white with gray and black lower wing feathers and throats, vermillion crests, and beak, feet and eye details in black and pale green. Cloud bands are white with shades of blue, pale green, yellow and vermillion on a gold metallic ground.
place: label: made in
content: China
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-433
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Rank badge (buzi)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, gilded paper Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry) Label: Silk and metallic tapestry (k'ossu)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 34 x 31.1 cm (13 3/8 x 12 1/4 in.)