Group of Chinese Rank Badges. The first, a pair of dark blue-ground badges, each worked in Peking knot with couched gilt and polychrome threads to depict an egret; the second embroidered in polychrome silk floss on a dark blue ground with a pheasant; the third decorated in couched gilt and silk threads on a blackish-brown ground with a bird, possibly paradise flycatcher. {Size of the first: 11 1/4 x 23 1/2 inches (28.5 x 59.7 cm)}. Condition: All with areas of staining, fraying. the third with loose threads and losses.