Fine Chinese Paintings and Works of Art - 17 May 2022
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THREE CHINESE IMPERIAL KINGFISHER FEATHER HAIRPINS
清 御製點翠髮簪 一組三件
THREE CHINESE IMPERIAL KINGFISHER FEATHER HAIRPINS
QING DYNASTY
Variously formed, one as filigree work shaped as a pagoda, one with butterflies perched on fruiting flower branches adorned with simulated pearls, and one decorated with an amber squirrel, coral branches, beads and coloured stones, with a paper label for Jehanne de Biolley, Oriental Art, London, 17.9cm max. (3)
Provenance: a private collection, London.
Cf. Ruan Weiping, Jewelry of the Empress and Imperial Concubines in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Classics of the Forbidden City, p.129, for a similar hairpin with squirrel motifs.
清 御製點翠髮簪 一組三件
來源：英國倫敦私人收藏，附Jehanne de Biolley, Oriental Art標籤。
注：此組拍品中一件松鼠葡萄髮簪中央蜜蠟松鼠，點染紅色眼睛，活潑可愛，於北京故宮博物院所藏以點翠穿珠花上的松樹極為相似。見故宮出版社，《清宮后妃首飾圖典》，p128-129，圖95。
來源：英國倫敦私人收藏，附Jehanne de Biolley, Oriental Art標籤。
注：此組拍品中一件松鼠葡萄髮簪中央蜜蠟松鼠，點染紅色眼睛，活潑可愛，於北京故宮博物院所藏以點翠穿珠花上的松樹極為相似。見故宮出版社，《清宮后妃首飾圖典》，p128-129，圖95。
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