Rank Badge (Buzi) IV Pillow
Rank Badge (Buzi) IV Pillow
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This badge is a buzi, the square insignia that Chinese officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties wore sewn to the chest and back of their formal robes to announce their rank at court. Birds marked civil officials and animals marked military officers, with nine distinct grades running in each branch of government. Rank badges like this one were as much prized works of textile artistry as they were bureaucratic identification, often woven in fine silk and sometimes metallic thread.
Jacquard-woven both sides in soft, durable yarn; insert included.
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The subject alone sold me and the execution sealed it. I have been hunting for a good version of rank badge buzi for two years. It has been through a Gulf Coast August with the AC running nonstop and looks exactly the same. This shop has a customer for life in me.
For the price this lands well above where I expected it to. There is more going on in rank badge buzi than I noticed on the website. Our farmhouse has a lot of empty space and this filled some of it nicely. It has made the entryway feel more finished.
I have bought three of these now for different rooms. The detail in rank badge buzi holds up with my face inches away. I have already ordered two more for other rooms…
I wanted something for the living room that nobody else would have, and this is it. It brings out parts of rank badge buzi I have never seen reproduced this well.
Everything about this went better than I hoped.