清十八至十九世紀 金胎纍絲嵌珍珠蔓草「萬事如意」簪

finely executed in gold filigree, the ruyi-shaped head decorated in delicate filigree with thin twisted wired inset to the centre with a pearl, elegantly adorned with six delicate twisted gold wires radiating from the head, fixed to the top with a foliate scroll inset with a seed pearl and a wan symbol, flanked by four archaistic scrolling dragons

卡爾肯普博士（1884-1967年）收藏
香港蘇富比2008年4月11日，編號2301

《Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection》，史密森學會，華盛頓，1954年，編號65
《Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain: The Kempe Collection》，Asia House Gallery，紐約，1971年，編號27

Bo Gyllensvard，《Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection》，斯德哥爾摩，1953年，圖版65
《A Botanical Excursion in the Kempe Collection》，斯德哥爾摩，1965年，圖版24a
《Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection》，遠東藝術博物館，瑞典育瑞森翰姆市，1999年，編號58

The present ornament, decorated with auspicious symbols, was worn by court ladies as decoration for their hair.  There were strict rules governing the use of jewellery and ornaments during the Qing dynasty and court ladies were restricted on the use of decorative items such as hair-slides, hairpins, liusu hair ornaments and other jewellery. For more information on the use of gold ornaments during the Qing dynasty see Yang Boda, 'Ancient Chinese Cultures of Gold Jewellery and Ornamentation', Arts of Asia, vol. 38, no. 2, March-April 2008, pp. 88-113.  See a similar hair ornament with twisted gold wires radiating from the centre, decorated with two wan symbols and archaistic scrolling designs, illustrated in Celestial Creations: Art of the Chinese Goldsmith, The Cheng Xun Tang Collection, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007, pl.H03.  Compare also another hair ornament similarly decorated with two ruyi heads in delicate filigree work, illustrated in Gems of Beijing Cultural Relics, Gold and Silverwares, Beijing, 2004, pl. 296. The scrolling dragons and foliate scroll on the present ornament may have once been covered with kingfisher feathers.  See a related gold hair ornament in op.cit., p.111.