Jade (nephrite), glass, kingfisher feather, amber, coral and carnelian headdress, qing dynasty, 20.3 cm high.
Theatrical Headdress, 18th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 35.140.1. CC0.

Guan (cap or crown)

Theatrical Headdress

Chinese name
头冠
Pinyin
touguan
Dimensions
height 20.3 cm; width 4.4 cm
Accession no.
35.140.1
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

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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