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Object Number 991-12-60/14940D
Display Title Six Single Earrings with Various Leaf, Fish, Bat, and Bell Motifs
Descriptions
Indigenous Term earring - erhuan
Object Description Six single earrings: (a) long narrow pendant, enameled copper alloy with leaf motif at end (6.2 cm. (l) x 1 cm. (d) x 1 cm. (w)); (b) enameled copper alloy with fish motif with leaf hanging from it (6.2 cm. (l) x 3.3 cm. (w) x .7 cm. (d)); (c) enameled copper alloy, openwork Chinese character and two bats with a leaf form hanging from it with a bat in relief on one side (4. cm. (l) x 2.3 cm. (d) x 2.1 cm. (w)); (d) enameled copper alloy, openwork bat motif and three bells hanging from it, a spring extends out and from bat's head with glass bead at end (4.8 cm. (l) x 3.7 cm. (d) x 12.5 cm. (w)); (e) copper alloy in relief floral motifs, three leaf pendants (6.3 cm. (l) x 3.7 cm. (w) x .9 cm. (d)); (f) copper alloy, kingfisher feathers, glass beads - bat motifs (3 cm. (l) x 2.3 cm. (d) x 1.7 cm. (w)). <transliteration> (Chinese name).
Inventory Description Earring, gilt brass, french hook, butterfly, danglers, glass bead at end of spri
Classification
  • Earring
Department Ethnographic
Date late 19th century - early 20th century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / China
Dimensions Overall: 5.5 x 2.2 x 3.3 cm (2 3/16 x 7/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 991-12-60/14940D
Provenance
Donor Sarah Conger Buchan Jewell

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