Military badge
Category
Costume
Date
1800 - 1900
Materials
Textile
Measurements
305 mm (H)254 mm (W)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349468.2
Summary
One of two Chinese military rank badges made from black satin and lined with blue silk. They are embroidered with gold and silver thread couched with a variety of coloured threads showing ch'i-lin (lion dog) in metal thread and satin stitch in purple thread with applied sea and mountains with heavycloud filing and a Thunder line border. The ch'i-lin was worn by military officials of the first rank. Ch'ing dynasty. (male)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade