Gold and kingfisher feather headdress ornament, qing dynasty, 7.6 cm long.
Fragment of Headdress, late 17th–early 18th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 30.76.306. CC0.

Headdress fragment

Fragment of Headdress

Chinese name
头饰残件
Pinyin
toushi canjian
Dimensions
length 7.6 cm; width 5.1 cm
Accession no.
30.76.306
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a headdress ornament in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Qing Dynasty. The recorded medium is gold, pearls, feathers. Its recorded length is 7.6 cm long. Accession number 30.76.306, rogers Fund, 1930.

This description is a direct summary of the museum's own record, not an independent assessment. It is awaiting editorial rewriting; the facts it states are the ones the holding institution asserts.

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