Headdress Ornament
- Chinese name
- 银鎏金点翠头饰
- Pinyin
- Date
- Qing Dynasty
- Medium
- Gilt silver, Silver, Kingfisher feather, Glass
- Dimensions
- height 22 cm
- Accession no.
- 2001.179.1
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
Techniques
A single element from a composite headdress, worked in gilded copper-silver alloy with kingfisher feather and glass beads. Pieces of this kind were made in matched sets; this one survives detached from its assembly.