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Object Number 991-12-60/14993A
Display Title Pair of Hairpin Ornaments with Glass Beads and Greenstone Ornaments
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Yes (Chinese name)
Object Description Pair of hair ornaments. Stem shaped with silk-covered wire stem, green stone, white glass beads, pink coral (?) bead ornaments. (a) also has clear pink glass beads and gilt ornament on tip. (b) has gold-couched thread ornaments. Green stone ornaments are in various motifs: flowers, leaves, and butterflies. <transliteration> (Chinese name). (a) 11 cm. (l) x 6.4 cm. (w) x 2 cm. (d); (b) 8.2 cm. (l) x 4.2 cm. (w) x 2.8 cm. (d).
Inventory Description Pin, ornament, silk wrapped branch, stone leaves, blossoms, coral buds
Classification
  • Pin
Department Ethnographic
Date late 19th century - early 20th century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / China
Dimensions Overall: 10.5 x 4 x 2.3 cm (4 1/8 x 1 9/16 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Sarah Pike Conger (1898 - 1905)
Donor Sarah Conger Buchan Jewell

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