
Theatrical Headdress
- Chinese name
- 头冠
- Pinyin
- Date
- Qing Dynasty
- Medium
- Jade (nephrite), Glass, Kingfisher feather, Amber, Coral, Carnelian
- Dimensions
- height 20.3 cm; width 4.4 cm
- Accession no.
- 35.140.1
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Techniques
This is a headdress in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Qing Dynasty. The recorded medium is jade, amber, coral, carnelian, pearls, glass, feathers, gilt wire. Its recorded height is 20.3 cm high. Accession number 35.140.1, fletcher Fund, 1935.