拍品 101
101
A BEJEWELED KINGFISHER FEATHER-EMBELLISHED HEADDRESS, CHAO GUAN
A BEJEWELED KINGFISHER FEATHER-EMBELLISHED HEADDRESS, CHAO GUAN

QING DYNASTY

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A BEJEWELED KINGFISHER FEATHER-EMBELLISHED HEADDRESS, CHAO GUAN
Qing Dynasty
The cap formed by black silk-covered wire and black silk mesh decorated with delicate spring-mounted motifs inlaid with kingfisher feathers, the front with a row of five gilt-metal phoenix inlaid with large pink tourmaline cabochons, pearl, coral and turquoise tassels suspended from their beaks above two dragons confronted on a flaming pearl, the top with a large bat enclosing a shou character above a flower-filled basket, with two butterflies hovering amidst the spreading foliage, all enhanced by pearls and further pink tourmaline
9in. (22.8cm.) across

拍品專文

A similar headdress is illustrated by Linda Wrigglesworth in the Catalogue for the exhibition, The Accessrys, 3-26 April 1991, p. 7. Compare, also, the headdress included in the exhibition, The Magnificent Manchus: Court Art of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Stanford Museum, Stanford University, 1955, Catalogue, pl. 169. See, also, the example sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 28 April 1996, lot 41.