Lot 430
  • 430

A GOLD 'PRUNUS' HAIR ORNAMENT QING DYNASTY, 18TH – 19TH CENTURY |

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 HKD
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Description

  • 5.2 cm, 2 in. weight 6g, 18K
the spray with four fine filigree prunus flowers and filigree teardrop leaves, later mounted on metal pins

Provenance

Collection of Dr Carl Kempe (1884-1967).
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 11th April 2008, lot 2308.

Exhibited

Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., 1954-1955, cat. no. 70.

Literature

Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 70.

Condition

One of the flowers is missing a small disk from the center of the flower. The centre of the flowers may have at one time held a bead or a pearl. The surface is slightly blackish along the edge of the leaves and around the centre of the flower. The overall condition of the ornament is still quite good. It is later mounted on metal pins.
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