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A PAIR OF GOLD EARRINGS AND FOUR GOLD ORNAMENTS A PAIR OF OPENWORK GOLD BEADS
Gold earrings: Qing dynasty, 19th century Liao dynasty
Each earring constructed as a large blossom with three layers Each of spherical profile, formed by twelve curvilinear loops and two
of granulated balls suspending a flower-decorated crescent and circular rings connected together with tiny granulated beads.
teardrop-shaped leaves, the reverse of the bloom mounted with a 1/2 x 3/4 x 5/8in (1.4 x 1.9 x 1.6cm) dimensions of each (2).
loop, holding a thin curving pin; the bird-shaped ornaments each
portrayed as a goose in flight rendered with a hollowed body and US$2,000 - 3,000
outstretched wings with hammered and pinched details, and pierced
at one end for mounting.
Earrings: 1 5/8in (4.1cm) long excluding pin 遼 金項珠兩枚
‘Bird’ ornaments: 1 1/4 x 1 1/4in (3.2 x 3.2cm) (6).
Gold beads such as these would be used in necklace during the Liao
dynasty.
US$4,000 - 6,000
Compare a group of five similar gold beads illustrated in Adornment
瓔珞花卉半月紋金耳環一對及飛雁鳴春金飾四枚 for the Body and Soul, Ancient Chinese Ornaments from the
金耳環：清 十九世紀 Mengdiexuan Collection, Emma C. Bunker and Julia M. White with
Jenny F. So (Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong Museum
The subject matter of the earrings suggests that the pair could be Society, 1999), p. 237, pl. 104. See also Chinese Gold Ornaments,
made for the Muslim community. Simon Kwan and Sun Ji (Hong Kong: Muwen Tang Fine Art Publication
Ltd., 2003), pp. 366-367, pl. 217.

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