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Lot 106

A Pair of Chinese Ruby Inset Gold 'Clove' Earrings, Dingxiang, Ming Dynasty
明 嵌紅寶花頭金丁香一對
Sale 2046 - Asian Works of Art
Mar 21, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / New York
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A Pair of Chinese Ruby Inset Gold 'Clove' Earrings, Dingxiang, Ming Dynasty
明 嵌紅寶花頭金丁香一對
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

Each in the form of a clove blossom, centered with an inset ruby stone, backed by an s-shape hook for threading through the earlobe.
Note:
See Xi'an Qujiang Art Museum. Collection Dong Bo Zhai. Beijing: Cultural Relics Press, 2014, p 92-93.

貼耳垂戴的小型耳環名喚金丁香,晚明流行到清,李漁《閑情偶寄》卷三《聲容部·首飾》云“飾耳之環,愈小愈佳,或珠一粒,或金銀一點,此家常佩戴之物,俗名丁香,肖其形也”。

《金瓶梅詞話》第四十二回,西門慶的夥計韓道國的老婆王六兒打扮了到獅子街房裏,“頭上戴著時樣扭心䯼髻,羊皮金箍兒”,“耳邊帶著丁香兒”。第六十八回:”吳銀兒來到。頭上戴著白縐紗鬏髻、珠子箍兒、翠雲鈿兒,周圍撒一溜小簪兒。耳邊戴著金丁香兒。"第七十四回:“西門慶見如意兒穿著玉色對衿襖兒……油脂搽的嘴鮮紅的。耳邊帶著兩個金丁香兒。"第七十五回,仁醫官來診脈,“月娘方動身梳頭兒,戴上冠兒”,“頭上止擺著六根金頭簪兒,戴上臥兔兒,也不搽臉,薄施胭粉,淡掃蛾眉,耳邊帶著兩個金丁香兒”。第七十七回“那婦人頭上勒著翠藍銷金箍兒,鬏髻插著四根金簮兒。耳朵上兩個丁香兒。"說的都是這種耳飾。

類似耳環參見西安曲江藝術博物館編著《東波齋藏明萬曆皇家金器:以萬曆辛丑(1601)年為中心》,92-93頁;以及林業強主編《寶蘊迎祥:承訓堂藏金》,2007年香港中文大學中國文化研究所文物館,第462-463頁。

Height 1 5/8 in., 4.3 cm.

Property from the RenLu Collection, Los Angeles, California.

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