Headdress

Woman's headdress known as fengguan (phoenix crown), in form of a high domed crown, the wire frame covered with dragons, phoenixes and other motifs made from blue kingfisher feathers, with inscriptions formed by kingfisher feathers on 11 cartouches (one lost): China, Qing dynasty, late 19th century

Hair ornament

Large hair ornament of kingfisher feathers and red and gold painted paper, with central wreath of peony, camelia and chrysanthemum flowers, with four phoenixes in flight amongst foliage in lower half of the arrangement: China, late 19th - early 20th century

Hairpin

Ornamental hair pin in the style of a wreath with clusters of bamboo leaves and bats of kingfisher feathers and clusters of flowers of coloured glass and beads, attached to the hair by an L-shaped metal pin: Chinese, late 19th - early 20th century

Brooch

Brooch or pinhead of kingfisher feathers in the shape of bamboo leaves with flower at centre of pink glass beads, sewn onto cloth, flanked by two Buddha Hand Citron and bats, also beads and coloured glass representing peaches: Chinese, early 20th century