Civil Rank Badge with a 6th rank Egret
- Title
- Civil Rank Badge with a 6th rank Egret
- LC Subject
- textiles (visual works)
- Donor
- Sponenburgh, Mark
- Description
- Civil Rank Badge with a 6th rank Egret with wound metallic thread background and emblems of the Eight Immortals; swastika trim; front badge; worn by a female.
- Motif
- Egret (6th rank) recognized by colorful green legs; white bird; short tail feath
- Work Type
- badges
- Location
- People's Republic of China
- Date
- 1801/1900
- Identifier
- 1981.001.024
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Silk; Metallic Threads
- Technique
- Pekinese Stitch; Tent Stitch
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Civil Rank Badge of blues, white, and black silks in a tent stitch with a wound metallic thread background and a red sun disk. This Mandarin Square features a 6 th rank Egret recognized by the colorful feet. The Egret is surrounded by the emblems of the Eight Immortals. The square is trimmed with swastikas, which was a Buddhist symbol of luck since AD200. The swastika symbol is almost always shown clockwise in the Buddhist use of it. However, here they are paired facing clockwise and counter clockwise. Creating balance was very important in Chinese tradition._
