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Three Chinese Gold Hairpins, Tang-Ming Dynasty
唐-明 金並頭釵一支及一點油金簪兩支
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Three Chinese Gold Hairpins, Tang-Ming Dynasty
唐-明 金並頭釵一支及一點油金簪兩支
Tang-Ming Dynasty (618-1644)

Two-tined hairpin, chai: Tang-Song dynasty.
One-tined hairpins, zan: Ming dynasty.
Note:
A similar pair of Tang dynasty two-tined hairpins with incised decoration, see Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn 1999, page 84, no. 45.

Similar examples from the Ming dynasty and discussion, see Yang, Zhishui, Shehua Zhise, Song Yuan Ming Jinyinqi Yanjiu, volume 2, Zhonghua Shuju, Beijing, 2011, p 13-15.

簪首顶出蘑菇頭,名喚”一點油“。參見湖北省博物館藏湖北省鍾祥市梁莊王墓出土明代圓形金簪,以及江蘇省無錫市明代黃鉞夫婦墓出土金簪,係黃妻顧氏之物,長9.3厘米,簪挺五棱,鏨南朝劉宋陸凱《贈範曄》:“折梅逢驛使,寄與隴頭人。江南無所有,聊贈一枝春。”又,江蘇省無錫市明代華復誠夫婦墓出土鍍金銀簪,華妻曹氏之物,出土時插戴在曹氏的銀絲䯼髻上。

此類短簪是明人髮飾中的基本款,不論男女,用途甚多,與使用者甚親密,輕易不會除下,常用為男女寄情的信物。如《金瓶梅詞話》第八回金蓮嗔道西門慶久不露面,“一手向他頭上把帽兒撮下來”,“一面向他頭上拔下一根簪兒,拿在手裏觀看,卻是一點油金簪兒,上面钑著兩溜子字兒‘金勒馬嘶芳草地,玉樓人醉杏花天’,卻是孟玉樓帶來的”。其時西門慶剛“娶了玉樓在家,燕爾新婚,如膠似漆”,插在頭上的一點油金簪是玉樓贈予的信物,因而被金蓮認作變心的證據。

類似唐代金並頭釵,見瑞典《卡爾肯普藏中國金銀器》, 1999年出版,第84頁,第45號,明代金蘑菇頭錐腳簪及研究,見揚之水著《奢華之色——宋元明金銀器研究卷二》,中華書局2011年出版,第13-15頁。

Length 3 3/4, 3 5/8, and 3 5/8 in., 9.5, 9.2, and 9.2 cm.

Property from the RenLu Collection, Los Angeles, California.

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