Buddhist 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 and metal thread embroidery on silk satin. Accession number 62.216, gift of Edna Bahr, 1962.

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.