Title

Lychee-flesh white jade hair chignon and pin, Northern Song-Ming dynasty, China, 960-1644. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Lychee-flesh white jade hair chignon and pin, Northern Song-Ming dynasty, China, 960-1644. A chignon of fine lychee-flesh jade. The sides are pierced for pin and for circulation of air, the rest is plain but unusually a flap extends at the rear. Fine quality jade of this prized lychee-flesh colour was available during most of the Northern Song period particularly from 951-1028, but thereafter was available less and less and ceased to be available altogether in the Ming after Emperor Xuande. The pin dates from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

960th century

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B73_007

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

17,9Mb (425,8Kb) / 9,4in x 7,4in / 2832 x 2215 (300dpi)

Keywords

fashion arts carving country white China art Chinese color colour dress carved ming location century hairstyle artefact dynasty Ming Dynasty artifact 17th century 10th Century tenth century 14th century 16th century Fourteenth Century sixteenth century seventeenth century 15th century Museum of East Asian Art 11th century 12th century chignon fashion accessory fifteenth century hair pin Northern Song Song Dynasty object Eleventh Century Unknown jade jade object