A rare gold hair ornament inlaid with turquoise Qing dynasty, 18th / 19th century

executed in gold filigree work forming five broad petals overlapping with five slender petals in beaten gold, the rosette inlaid to the centre with a turquoise floret and encircled by five smaller turquoise stones, the flattened pin chased with a butterfly and three birds, incised below with a winged boy and a mythical animal amid swirling clouds

Collection of Dr. Carl Kempe

Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Smithsonian Institute, Wash. D.C., 1954-55, cat. no. 50.

Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, cat. no.50.
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl.47.

This rare gold hairpin is in good condition with the exception of the pin having been re-attached to the head, some minor scratches to the flattened pin and a possible later replaced central turquoise stamen.
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