Kingfisher Veil Pin
A contemporary piece in Sterling silver and Lab-created blue, begun from the Qing Dynasty Headdress fragment in our atlas.
$260
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Materials
Sterling silver · Lab-created blue
The idea
A Qing kingfisher-feather headdress, translated into a pin using a lab-created blue — the colour kept, the bird spared.
Not a reproduction
The original uses real kingfisher feathers (diancui), an art now avoided for ethical reasons. This pin keeps the blue-green inlay in lab-created material and silver; it references the technique without repeating it, and uses no real feathers.
Where it begins
A single element from a composite headdress, worked in gilded copper-silver alloy with kingfisher feather and glass beads. Pieces of this kind were made in matched sets; this one survives detached from its assembly.
