Fine Chinese Paintings and Works of Art - 17th May 2022
Lot 462
THREE CHINESE IMPERIAL KINGFISHER FEATHER HAIRPINS
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £2800
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Description
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.