Jade (nephrite), glass, kingfisher feather and coral headdress ornament, qing dynasty.
Ornaments for Manzhu Hat, 18th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 35.140.4. CC0.

Headdress fragment

Ornaments for Manzhu Hat

Chinese name
冠饰
Pinyin
guanshi
Accession no.
35.140.4
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 metal, feathers, jade, seed pearls, topaz coral, glass. Accession number 35.140.4, fletcher Fund, 1935.

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