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Rank badge (buzi)
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Most of a Ming dynasty First Rank square showing a pair of cranes with spread wings arched across a gold sky filled with brightly colored attenuated cloud streamers. Birds are white with gray and black lower wing feathers and throats, vermillion crests, and beak, feet and eye details in black and pale green. Cloud bands are white with shades of blue, pale green, yellow and vermillion on a gold metallic ground.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineRank badge (buzi). Ming dynasty 1368–1644. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of John Pierpont Morgan. CC0.
