Artwork

Hair crosspiece of white jade inlaid with pearls and jadeites

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: The hair crosspiece is like a long slip, with tourmaline-inlaid patterns of two bats and a "shou"...

Qing Dynasty
Length: 31.5cm
Width: 3.1cm

The long-slip hair crosspiece is adorned with jadeite-inlaid green lotus leaves, seedpods of pink tourmalines, and small flowers of rubies and sapphires. A frog is crouching on the lotus leaf. The top of the crosspiece is inlaid with a five-petal flower of tourmaline on both sides, and the pistils are inlaid with pearls.

Made of fine jade and adorned with simple patterns, this hair crosspiece is a masterwork of those made in the mid-Qing Dynasty.

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