Portrait of a Rank Nine Civil Offical

photo: Masatsugu Nokubo

Portrait of a Rank Nine Civil Offical

Currently not on view

Portrait of a Rank Nine Civil Offical,

undated; ca. 19th century

Anonymous
Chinese
Qing dynasty, 1644–1912
2000-443
This civil official’s winter costume includes a blue, fur-lined outer garment with a square embroidered badge that depicts a long-tailed flycatcher (lianque) looking up at a red sun. This badge signaled the authority of a ninth-rank civil officer within the Qing dynasty imperial bureaucratic hierarchy.

Information

Title
Portrait of a Rank Nine Civil Offical
Dates

undated; ca. 19th century

Maker
Anonymous
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Painting (sight): 131.5 × 77 cm (51 3/4 × 30 5/16 in.) frame: 173 × 107 × 3.2 cm (68 1/8 × 42 1/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Leonard Englander in memory of Harold Kramer
Object Number
2000-443
Place Made

Asia, China

Culture
Chinese
Period
Qing
Type
hanging scrolls, scroll paintings, chinese painting styles, paintings
Materials
paper (fiber product), ink
Subject
figures (representations), portraits, public officers, men

– Harold Kramer collection (Princeton, NJ), by inheritance to Leonard Englander (Deerfield Beach, FL).
–2000 Leonard Englander (Deerfield Beach, FL), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum.

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