A silver neck ornament. Southern China, Northern Thailand, Burma, Laos or Vietnam. Miao, Hmong and Yao tribes. Ca. 1950 - image-1
A silver neck ornament. Southern China, Northern Thailand, Burma, Laos or Vietnam. Miao, Hmong and Yao tribes. Ca. 1950 - image-2
A silver neck ornament. Southern China, Northern Thailand, Burma, Laos or Vietnam. Miao, Hmong and Yao tribes. Ca. 1950 - image-1A silver neck ornament. Southern China, Northern Thailand, Burma, Laos or Vietnam. Miao, Hmong and Yao tribes. Ca. 1950 - image-2

Lot 133 Dα

A silver neck ornament. Southern China, Northern Thailand, Burma, Laos or Vietnam. Miao, Hmong and Yao tribes. Ca. 1950

Auction 1213 - overview Cologne
09.12.2022, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 2.300 € - 2.600 €

A silver neck ornament. Southern China, Northern Thailand, Burma, Laos or Vietnam. Miao, Hmong and Yao tribes. Ca. 1950

Consisting of five hollow rings of decreasing size and lying over each other, fastened by hooks ending in spirals which are typical of Miao work.
Maximum width 22.5 cm

清 銀鍍金嵌琉璃蝴蝶頭簪
來源: 德國科隆私人收藏, 1980年代購於曼谷藝術市場

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland, acquired in the Paris art trade in the 1980s/1990s

Literature

Cf. The René van der Star Collection, The Art of Silver Jewellery from the minorities of China, the Golden Triangle, Mongolia and Tibet, Milan 2006, p. 147