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Text File  |  1994-11-29  |  526b  |  20 lines
  1. Summer Court Hat of an
  2. Imperial Honored Consort
  3. Ch'ing Dynasty (A.D. 1644-
  4. 1911)
  5. Overall height    31cm
  6.      This round crown is 
  7. made  of  green   velvet, 
  8. embellished with vermilion 
  9. threads.    The finial's 
  10. three layers  are linked 
  11. by   three  pearls,  each
  12. of  which  is  set  in  a
  13. golden phoenix embellished
  14. with  three  pearls,  with
  15. tails   embellished   with
  16. pearls.  Above the vermilion
  17. threads  are  seven  golden 
  18. phoenixes each embellished
  19. with nine pearls, and with
  20. seven pearls on the tail.