Lot 454 , A Chinese Beijing knot embroidered civil rank badge, late Qing

A Chinese Beijing knot embroidered civil rank badge, late Qing
Estimate £100-150

One side gold thread a little loose; uniform fading; clearly visible fold/seam-line running vertically down the centre

29cm square excluding frame.

Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1910-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke lived in Carmarthenshire, Wales and was an avid collector of European & Asian works of art and an author of the History of Llandovery. He was collecting from the 1940s to the 1980s.


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Sold for £220