Period:Unknown Production date:1800-1900
Materials:paktong
Technique:repoussé
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Height: 11 centimetres
Description:
Scholar-graduate’s hat button (insignia) made of baitong (paktong), or “white metal alloy”, with a silver bird at the top and amber-coloured glass stone in the central section.
IMG
![图片[1]-hat button BM-2004-0519.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00020816_001.jpg)
Comments:The bird indicates that the wearer had achieved a Shengyuan degree in the first level Provincial examinations. If he had achieved the Juren degree in the Metropolitan examinations, the bird would be gilded.
Materials:paktong
Technique:repoussé
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Height: 11 centimetres
Description:
Scholar-graduate’s hat button (insignia) made of baitong (paktong), or “white metal alloy”, with a silver bird at the top and amber-coloured glass stone in the central section.
IMG
Comments:The bird indicates that the wearer had achieved a Shengyuan degree in the first level Provincial examinations. If he had achieved the Juren degree in the Metropolitan examinations, the bird would be gilded.
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