A GROUP OF GOLD HAIRPINS

SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

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A GROUP OF GOLD HAIRPINS
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
All made of sheet gold wrapped into a tapering cylindrical pin, with repoussé relief decoration at the top below an attached flower-form cap: comprising a long pair relief-decorated with a pair of ducks in flight above a lotus pond below the chrysanthemum flower cap; the other long pin and the pair of shorter double pins with flower stems below the peony-form caps; together with the upper section of a double hairpin decorated with flowers
2 3/8 to 6¾ in. (6 to 17 cm.) long
Wt. 17.5, 16.8, 10.6, 8.1, 7.7 and 8.7 g. (6)

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1980s.

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Lot Essay

Compare the gold hairpins of this type also dated to the Song dynasty illustrated by Julia M. White and Emma C. Bunker, Adornment for Eternity: Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament, Denver Art Museum, 1994, pp. 183-4, nos. 95 and 96. See, also, a single similar example illustrated in Chinesisches Gold und Silber: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Museum Reitberg, Zürich, 1994, p. 242, no. 292.

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