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Lot 103

A Chinese Gold 'Longevity' Hairpin, Tongzan, Late Ming Dynasty
明晚期 滇式壽字紋金長簪
Sale 2046 - Asian Works of Art
Mar 21, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / New York
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$8,000 - 12,000
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$7,040
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A Chinese Gold 'Longevity' Hairpin, Tongzan, Late Ming Dynasty
明晚期 滇式壽字紋金長簪
Late Ming Dynasty (17th Century)

The upper section of the long tapering shaft is decorated with a reticulated panel filled with leafy branches, the top of the shaft slightly curved and crowned by a mushroom head centered with an open-worked shou character flanked by two shou roundels.
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For an example in a similar form, see YANG, Zhishui. Zhongguo Gudai Jinyin Shoushi. Beijing: Palace Museum Press, 2014, vol. 2, p 438-439, pl. 5.43. 

簪頂蘑菇頭鏨壽字紋,下鏤空卷草紋,逾20 cm長,形制、紋樣俱與中原不同,見揚之水著《中國古代金銀首飾全三卷》,第438-449頁。

Length 9 in., 22.9 cm.

Property from the RenLu Collection, Los Angeles, California.

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