Kingfisher feather headdress, qing dynasty, 17.8 cm high.
Manchu Woman's Headdress, late 18th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 54.27.5. CC0.

Guan (cap or crown)

Manchu Woman's Headdress

Chinese name
头冠
Pinyin
touguan
Dimensions
height 17.8 cm; width 25.4 cm
Accession no.
54.27.5
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 semi-precious stones, imitation pearls, feathers. Its recorded height is 17.8 cm high. Accession number 54.27.5, gift of Annette Young, in memory of her brother, Innis Young, 1954.

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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