A GROUP OF FOUR GOLD HAIRPINS

Description:

China, Qing dynasty
L.10-11,5 cm, 75 g
Flowers, symbols and Shou characters. One pair, two single, one of them asymmetrical.
Gold in repoussé and sunken relief. 75g.
From an important German private collection, assembled between the 1980s and 1999 - Cp.: Similar symmetrically designed hairpin: "Chinese Gold and Silver. The Pierre Uldry Collection", Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 1994, p. 260, no. 314.