17th century The badge for a fifth-rank civil official colourfully embroidered with a pair of confronted silver pheasants, the lower one standing on prism-like rocks issuing from rolling waves embroidered in silk floss using long stitches and couched threads, all amidst five-coloured ruyi clouds worked in red, blue, green, yellow and pink, further embellished at the centre with gold thread, the edges raised over an under-thread to convey a three-dimensional effect, all on a ground of dark blue silk with a twisted thread for a matt effect, mounted. 38cm (15in) x 36cm (14 1/2in).