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Lot 597
A GROUP OF 19 HAIR ORNAMENTS WITH KINGFISHER FEATHERS
Estimated Value:
900 € - 1.500 €
Result:
2.201 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
China, Qing dynastyL.4-20 cm, B.2-12,5 cm.
Flowers, butterflies and phoenixes.
Gilded silver and copper with kingfisher feathers, stones from coral, turquoise, glass and pearls.
From an important German private collection, assembled between the 1980s and 1999 - Cp.: Hair ornaments with kingfisher feathers: "Four Centuries of Silver : Personal Adornment in the Qing Dynasty and After," Margaret Duda, Singapore, 2002, pp. 126, figs. 15-18; similar bows with kingfisher feathers: p. 127, fig. 19; similar hair ornaments with kingfisher feathers: Wriggelsworth, p. 31.
