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Headdress with flowers of gilt-silver filigrees inlaid with jadeite, pearls...

Headdress with flowers of gilt-silver filigrees inlaid with jadeite, pearls and gems
The headdress is framed with iron wires wound with black silk threads woven into "shou"...

"Yi Dao Ping Wu Qian" Knife-shaped Coin

Wang Mang, a high official of the Western Han Dynasty, usurped the throne in 8 A.D. and...

Bronze Mirror with Boss and Swallow Pattern

Bronze Mirror with Boss and Swallow Pattern
Han Dynasty. Bronze mirror has a spherical knob surrounded with eight bosses between which there...

Ming Dynasty
Diameter: 16cm

Exaggerated lip, constricted neck, low-slung belly, ring foot, neck and belly flanked with double centipede-dragon handles, otherwise unadorned with decoration, base gilded and with six character regular script Xuande mark.

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Other Artworks

    Jade Daily Articles
    Jade Daily Articles
    In the early period of jade culture in China, almost all jade ware was used as daily articles...
    A Doucai
    A Doucai...
    Light and fine body resting on a straight ring foot in reserve biscuit, spreading to a broad bowl...
    A Flambe Glazed Gallbladder Vase
    A Flambe Glazed...
    Ring foot rests on unglazed rim, expanding lightly to a full and low orb-belly and gradually...
    A Bronze Zun(Wine Vessel)
    A Bronze Zun(Wine...
    The slightly waisted body rising to a trumpet-shaped mouth, the lower and upper body encircled by...
    Jadeite archer's ring (a pair)
    Jadeite archer's...
    The pair of archer's rings is cylinder shaped, with one piece having a gold lining inside, which...
    Silver Cha (Wine Utensil) Made by Zhu Bishan
    Silver Cha (Wine...
    This silver cha (cha originally refers to tree branches, here it means a type of wine utensil...

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