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A PAIR OF GEMSTONE-INLAID GOLD EARRINGS, ERHUAN Compare a pair of almost identical earrings with inlaid precious
Late Ming/early Qing dynasty stones，each designed as two chrysanthemum heads arranged
Each modeled in the shape of two blossoms below a butterfly-like vertically below a butterfly, unearthed from the Zou Lingren Cemetery
design, the inlaid cabochons of green and pink tourmaline and pearl from the Ming dynasty in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province illustrated in
bead set within high collars, surrounded by delicate and layered filigree Zhongguo Gudai Jinyin Shoushi, Yang Zhishui (Beijing: Gugong,
work resembling chrysanthemum petals, mounted with an elaborate 2014), vol. 2, p. 613, pl. 6.18.1 & 6.18.2. See also similar earrings with
S-shaped pin. shorter pins, dated to the Yuan dynasty, illustrated in Adornment for
1 5/8in (4.1cm) long excluding pin (2). the Body and Soul, Ancient Chinese Ornaments from the Mengdiexuan
Collection, Emma C. Bunker and Julia M. White with Jenny F. So
US$4,000 - 5,000 (Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong Museum Society, 1999), p.
293, pl. 135, and in Celestial Creations, Art of the Chinese Goldsmith,
The Cheng Xun Tang Collection (Hong Kong: Art Museum, Institute of
明末清初 金鑲寶蝶趕菊耳環一對 Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2007), Part II,
pp. 454–455, no. G59.
The earring style of the present example was favored by the Ming
Imperial Family and is similar to those found in the Mausoleum of Ding
Ling according to Zhongguo (Beijing: 1989), pl. 126.

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