Cleveland Museum of Art
Headdress Ornament
- Date
- 1700s or 1800s
- Medium
- Copper-silver alloy, gilding, kingfisher feathers, glass beads
- Culture
- China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 161918
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Hair ornaments depicting flowers, butterflies, or birds were worn by ladies of the Manchu elite class. The iridescent blue feathers of kingfisher birds are inlaid in hairpins and headdresses.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Ginaven
- Provenance
- ?–2001: Howard L. Ginaven [1910–2005] and Marjorie Smith Ginaven [c. 1910–2006], Akron, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2001–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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