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Re: Chinese Imperial Portrait

Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: Feb 26, 2010 (09:45 AM)

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Hi Tim,

I've pasted the Wikipedia link below for an explanation and some illustrations of Mandarin rank badges, which are the squares that cover the chest on the robes. I believe your ancestral portrait showed a silver pheasant, which is listed as a class five civil servant. The figure in the portrait would have been the wife or mother of the official I believe.

The dragons on the ancestral portrait robes are sometimes embellishments related to honors granted posthumously to the official or simply made up of whole cloth to make grandmother look like she won on Queen for a Day (if you're old enough to remember that show).

Link :MandarinRanks

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