红配绿[doge]

Title: Vase with Coiling Dragon
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi mark and period (1662–1722)
Date: late 16th–early 17th century
Culture: China
Medium: Porcelain with raised decoration and peach-bloom and green glaze (Jingdezhen ware)
Dimensions: H. 8 in. (20.3 cm); Diam. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm); Diam. of rim 15/1 in. (2.4 cm); Diam. of base 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Accession Number: 14.40.362

钿子的局部

Title: Ornaments for a Woman's Hat
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Date: 18th–19th century
Culture: China
Medium: Gold, gilded metal, kingfisher feathers, glass, and semiprecious stones
Dimensions: a) W. 7 in. (17.8 cm)
b) H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); W. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
c) H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
d) H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
e–k) each: H. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); W. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
Classification: Jewelry
Credit Line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915
Accession Number: 15.95.181a–k

Ornaments such as these, which were most likely part of a larger set, would have been attached to a hat made of silk thread on wire and worn by women at court. Unlike more formal headdresses decorated with gold ornaments, hats of this type were widely used. One of the Qianlong Emperor's daughters received thirty such hats as part of her dowry.

五彩斑斓的绿

Title: Vase
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Date: 19th century
Culture: China
Medium: Porcelain with green glaze
Dimensions: H. 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
Accession Number: 91.1.425