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Description: A Chinese embroidered silk circular civil rank badge, probably depicting a silver pheasant
qing dynasty, 19th century
Framed, matted and glazed.
Sight D: 11 3/8 in., 29cm
PROVENANCE:
Dr. Robert Baker Ewan (1862-1926) and his wife Sarah Jane Lewthwaite (1861-1941), missionaries in Chengdu, circa 1900-1914. (Dr Ewan played a key role in establishing the Medical School at West China Union University.)
Thence by descent to the great-grandchildren, the present owners.