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date: label: Date
content: mid- 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rank badge for a civil official. Embroidered silk showing a bird facing a sun disk surrounded by auspicious symbols. Ground of clouds with diagonal lines at bottom and meandering key border. Seam down the center. Lined with blue silk.
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 the Estate of Mrs. Robert H. Patterson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-31-51-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Rank badge
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered with satin and couching stitches on satin weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 28 × 29.4 cm (11 in. × 11 9/16 in.)