Rank Badge with Decoration of Two Cranes among Clouds
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Rank badges embroidered with one or two cranes flying among clouds were reserved for civil, rather than military, officials. Usually woven of colorful threads, the design here has a limited two-tone palette of white and green-blue. Such badges were usually worn during the one hundred days after the three-year mourning period following the death of a king or queen.
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