Gold and mother of pearl brooch with Chinese character
Brooch made of gold and mother of pearl. The brooch was made by a Chinese goldsmith, probably in Shanghai or Hong Kong, for the export market and ended up in the Netherlands via Java. The Chinese character means 'flower'.
Type of item
- Object Type: brooch
- brooch
- Brooch
Date
- eerste helft 20e eeuw
Medium
- Material: alloy
- Material: alloy
- alloy
- Alloy
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1900/1966
Provenance
- 1966-10-27
- Schenking
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/112458
Format
- Technique: gilding
- gilding
- Gilding
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- gold
- gold
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z