LATE QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

Gold inlaid wood jewellery was a speciality of the Qing court. A very similar pair of bangles also lined on the interior with cash symbols but without the bats motif on the exterior is in the National Palace Museum Collection, Taipei, illustrated in Qingdai Fushi Zhanlan Tulu, Qing Dynasty Costume Accessories, Taipei, 1986, p. 254, no. 238. Two other pairs both with undecorated interior metal band are in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Qingdai Houfei Shoushi, Qing Dynasty Consort Jewellery, Forbidden Palace Press, 1992, nos. 270 and 271. For an related aloeswood headdress ornament, bianfang, see lot 3167 in the present sale.