China, Republic. An Order of the Golden Grain, I Class Grand Cross, c.1925
(Chia ho). Instituted in 1912. Sash Badge (three-piece construction, in silver with red, black, white, yellow, blue, light green and dark green enamels, measuring 70 mm (w) x 75 mm (h) inclusive of its integral ring, measuring 70 mm (w) x 118.5 mm (h) inclusive of its star and bloom with laterally-pierced ball suspension, on a full-length replacement sash incorporating a decorative moiré pattern); and Breast Star (three-piece construction, insignia in silver with red, black, white, yellow, blue, light green and dark green enamels, mounted to an eight-pointed silver star base, marked in Chinese "Republic of China", dated "1920" (in the ninth year of the Republic) and manufactured by the Printing and Casting Bureau Medal Factory on the reverse, measuring 96.3 mm (w) x 95 mm (h) mm, vertical pinback flanked by dual stays). Intact enamels, extremely fine.