Keywords: Portrait of Jiang Shunfu, badge detail.jpg Detail on a Ming Dynasty portrait of the Chinese official Jiang Shunfu 1453 1504 now in the Nanjing Museum The decoration of two cranes on his chest are a rank badge that indicate that he was a civil official of the first rank; refer to page 282 of Patricia Ebrey's paperback edition of Cambridge Illustrated History of China http //depts washington edu/chinaciv/clothing/11preqin htm Mingqing renwuxiaoxiang huaxuan Nanjing Nanjing Bowuguan 1979 pl 16 Late 15th century Anonymous PD-art 100px Paintings of the Ming Dynasty Portrait paintings of men of China Cranes in art Clothing of China Belts Mandarin square |