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Bride’s Headdress

1800-1899

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Bride’s Headdress

1800-1899

Physical Qualities Metal with kingfisher feathers, silk, wire, silk-wrapped wire, pearls, coral, jade, semi-precious stones, glass, 22 × 29 × 22 cm. (8 11/16 × 11 7/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line The Baltimore Museum of Art
Object Number 2017.440
A series of intricate and symbolic motifs are attached to a strips of stiff silk
The Baltimore Museum of Art; Mrs. Julius Levy, Baltimore (likely by gift from her husband)
Jackson, Beverley. Kingfisher Blue: Treasures of an Ancient Chinese Art. Berkley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2001.
Garrett, Valery M. A Collector's Guide to Chinese Dress Accessories. Singapore: Times Ed., 2001.
Garrett, Valery. Chinese Dress from Qing to the Present. North Clarendon, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2007.
https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9703/kingfisher-headdresses-from-china
https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/edu/object/wedding-bonnet
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/23925

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