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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 of the fifth rank. Embroidered silk and metallic yarns showing a silver pheasant on a ground of clouds, surrounded by auspicious symbols. Diagonal lines at the bottom signify the ocean.
place: label: made in
content: China
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1941-31-40
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Rank badge
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and metallic embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered with satin and couching stitches on gauze weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 29.6 × 23.3 cm (11 5/8 × 9 3/16 in.)