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Wooden mallet Single long handle with perpendicular head attached over the handle.

Mandarin square on black silk. Blue satin clouds gold couched bird in flight (goose) gold couched lattice border coral beaded sun or moon frayed blue backing. (Goose = 4th civil rank.) (ident. and dated by Tony Ventura)

imitation mandarin square; very rough figures and rough embroidery stitches; couched border; bright orange and green bird mountains and sun; blue water and clouds; end of bolster pillow; pillow used to lean on during meals id T+N 12/12/83

20" x 10" tapestry. Peacock rising from the sea clouds floral designs and orange sun. Dark brown background with blue and white designs. No backing. Holes and frayed edges. Mandarin Squares were used as rank badges with a series of nine birds for…

Mandarin Square; woven silk K'o-ssu tapestry Paradise fly-catcher clouds bats (= 9th civil service rank); brown blue and white; black silk backing; (ident. by Tony Ventura)

Mandarin Square; center seam; black silk embroidered with sea mountains birds florals; Peking knot pink blue green and beige; 7th rank civil mandarin duck; border design with bats and geometric symbols; light blue silk backing; ("Good piece" - ident.…

matched pair mandarin squares (front and back); light blue / dark blue background gold border stylized background indicative of 1900-1910; embroidered; 8th rank quail (civil service) embroidered separately from the square could be changed if the…

Pink silk satin panel with embroidery in satin stitch. Two panels sewn in center with narrow purple selvage. Lefthand panel has a dragon in shades of yellow and orange shaded from pale to deep color maroon and white. Also wave lines in yellow and…

silver pheasant mandarin square with gold thread couching on black background; clothing remnant frame of various shades of blue silk thread embroidery double row of black ribbon edges; couched areas in bad repair -- sea mountains bird clouds; blue…

Mandarin Square Black ground fabric with gold couching of sea mountains clouds and paradise fly-catcher with various Buddhist symbols and the Sun; entire design is couched; the border is the continuous thunder line also couched