Head-dress
19th century
Object PlaceChina
Medium/Techniquepapier-mache, gold-colored. Body of head-dress cut scroll designs in full relief and decorated with birds of same material holding strands of seed pearls and tassels of red silk in their beaks
Dimensions18.3 x 24 x 17.4 cm (7 3/16 x 9 7/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous gift
Accession numberRES.23.134f
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ProvenanceTransferred from Asiatic Dept. to Textiles.
late 3rd to 4th century AD
early 17th century
late 16th–early 17th century
1610–50
early 18th century
18th century
about 1780
1844
mid-19th century