Woman's Headdress

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 silk satin over a metal frame. Accession number 45.108.1, gift of Mrs. Charles Albert Perkins, 1945.

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.