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AN EXTREMELY RARE GOLD
FILIGREE ‘PHOENIX’ FINIAL FOR
AN IMPERIAL CONCUBINE COURT
HAT
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
the brilliant and intricately worked gold wires
forming a multi-tier ornament of two phoenix
stacked over a domed base along a vertical axis,
the base with eight pendent lobes each with a
ruyi-form edge and one of the ‘Eight Buddhist
Emblems’ applied to the surface, surmounted
by an openwork gold orb set with four pearls, a
phoenix perched atop, its feathers, eyes, beak,
and crest minutely detailed and with medium
and small pearls secured to the crest, chest,
wings, and % ve long tail feathers, surmounted by
a large pearl on its back, a second phoenix of the
same design perched atop the large pearl and
surmounted by a further large pearl, a teardrop-
shaped smoky hardstone crowning the % nial at
its peak
Height 5¾ in., 14.6 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Joseph (1919-2008) and Ruth
Satalo$ .
Gifted to the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, in
1994 (acc. no. 1994.39.4).
EXHIBITED
Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese
Commemorative Portraits, Freer Gallery of Art
and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., 2001, cat. no. 5.15.
$ 60,000-80,000
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