A GROUP OF 21 HAIRPINS

Estimated Value:

800 € - 1.200 €

Result:

1.100 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, Qing-Dynastie
L. 6-20 cm
Flowers. some with symbols. Pair of hairpins with genre scenes. Silver and other metals, partly gilded. Repoussé, some openwork, some solid. Pair of hairpins in the style of a Buddhist rattle stick.
From an important German private collection, assembled between the 1980s and 1999 - Cp.: Golden hairpin in the style of a Buddhist rattle stick, dated Ming or later: "Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection," Bo Gyllensvärd, Stockholm, 1953, pp. 104-105, no. 47. Similar hairpins: Museum of Applied Arts and Siences, Sydney, inv. no. 2019/56/8; Smithonian Museum, Washington, inv. no. S2012.9.2038; British Museum London, inv. no. 1991,0525.11; "Four Centuries of Silver : Personal Adornment in the Qing Dynasty and After," Margaret Duda, Singapore, 2002, p. 122, fig. 1, p. 124, figs. 6-7, p.126, figs. 14, 18.

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