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
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCostumes
Collections
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
about 1860