Title

White jade chignon, Ming dynasty, China, 1368-1644. Artist: Unknown

Caption

White jade chignon, Ming dynasty, China, 1368-1644. A small white jade hair chignon of rhomboid shape with pierced sides and open base. The piece is decorated with three raised ridges, one at each end and one double-ridged one in the centre rising out of a rectangular patch in the centre.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1368

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B74_167

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

17,9Mb (376,6Kb) / 9,3in x 7,5in / 2784 x 2249 (300dpi)

Keywords

horizontal Asian Asia ORIENTAL stone arts country white China art Chinese continent clothes color colour dress carved ming location century hairstyle accessory artefact dynasty Ming Dynasty artifact 17th century 14th century 16th century Fourteenth Century sixteenth century seventeenth century 15th century Museum of East Asian Art chignon fifteenth century object Unknown jade jade object