Rank Badge of Third or Fourth Rank Military Official with Tiger Design

Chinese Qing dynasty

27.2cm(w) x 26.8cm(l)

During the 18th century, the combined use of brush painting along with weaving and/or embroidery was popular for the decoration of Chinese rank badges. This badge is woven in kesi on a warp of two-ply blue silk; the background was woven with wefts of gold paper-wrapped threads, and fine internal details on many of the woven motifs such as the Daoist symbols and peonies as well as the stripes on the tiger are painted in black ink with a brush.