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Category Archives: Chinese Hair Comb
China: Ancient Combs of the World, by Kajetan Fiedorowicz
When the artist inside rules you, you climb mountains. Society judges you on your idiosyncrasies alone, unless you can communicate why you devoted your life to a love of something. With Kajetan Fiedorowicz, this love was for combs. I believe … Continue reading
Tang Dynasty Hair Comb at the Smithsonian
Recently, the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Institution put 40,000 Asian and American works of art online. This magnificent hair comb is one of them. I felt it was Tang Dynasty, but I also knew … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese Hair Comb, Tang Dynasty
Tagged chinese hair comb, Smithsonian Institution, tang dynasty
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Creative Museum: Stones, Leaves, Scissors
The Creative Museum just played a significant part in another exhibition at the Montelimar Miniature Museum. STONES, LEAVES, SCISSORS is about hair ornaments made in three different ways. Whether an artist looks at a piece of jade and carves a crown, … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese Hair Comb, Chinese Hair Pin, Creative Museum, Export Comb, Han Dynasty, Huasheng, Manchu hair pin, Nothern and Southern Dynasties, Qing Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Warring States Period
Tagged chinese hair comb, creative museum, hair comb, jade, jewelry made from hair, Kanzashi, Miao minority, Montelimar museum
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Plumes: The Creative Museum at the Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Asie
In its second collaboration with the Museum of African and Asian Arts in Vichy, The Creative Museum has been invited to participate in the exhibition, PLUMES. Human fascination with birds begins when their freedom of flight captures our imaginations. We … Continue reading
Posted in African Comb, American Hair Comb, Chinese Hair Comb, Creative Museum, Indian Hair Comb, Oceanic Comb, Papua New Guinea, Rajasthan, Senoufo, Tlingit
Tagged China, creative museum, Dani, hair comb, Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Asie, Museum of African and Asian Arts, Rajasthan, Senoufo, tlingit
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More Treasures from The Frances Wright Collection
Frances has been generous enough to share more of her treasures with us. The photographs were taken by her husband, Terry Wright. This is a Romanov comb, the real thing. Faint now. It is tortoiseshell, with a gold, silver, and … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese Hair Comb, Edwardian Hair Comb, English Hair Comb, Frances Wright Collection, Han Dynasty, Huasheng, Qing Dynasty, Romanov comb, Russian Hair Comb, Victorian Hair Comb
Tagged Chinese Huasheng comb, faberge, Frances Wright Collection, hinged daily comb, kingfisher comb, Russian Romanov comb, Victorian Algerian comb, victorian comb
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Learning from the Creative Museum and Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment
In quotes are comments from Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment by Truus Daalder. Reference numbers are in italics and specified at the bottom. The photographs and other writing come from the collection and scholarship of The Creative Museum. I thought it … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese Hair Comb, Chinese Hair Pin, Creative Museum, Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment, hair comb, Han Dynasty, Hmong, Indonesian Hair Comb, Laotian Comb, Manchu hair pin, Red Tai, Truus Daalder
Tagged chinese hair comb, Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment, Han Dynasty, Indonesian hair comb, Laotian hair comb, qing dynasty, Southeast Asia, The Creative Museum, Yao people
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Jen Cruse: The Butterfly Motif
The butterfly, the short-lived ethereal beauty of gardens and countryside, has been a favourite motif adorning hair jewellery for at least the past 250 years and particularly popular through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its delicate form is found … Continue reading
Chinese Hair Pins and Desolate, Derelict Pain
I saw. I gasped. I wanted — so badly, silent screams came from secret parts of my body. In 1644, the Aisin-Goro clan of the Tungusic Jurchen people from Manchuria (now Northeast China) conquered the Han Chinese in the South. … Continue reading
Jen Cruse: Exhibition for the Creative Museum
In an “Around the World in 80 Comb” exhibition, author Jen Cruse shares her collection with the Creative Museum. Her presentation enunciates the stunning diversity of comb design across the world and across time. My favorite is this Chinese ivory … Continue reading
Hair Ornaments during China’s Warring States Period
Yesterday, I saw a movie, “The Warring States.” It centers around a conflict between two generals who fight against each other for the Wei and Qi states. The other states in this period (475 to 221 BC) were Han, Zhao, … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese Hair Comb, Warring States Period
Tagged Chu, Lan, Lu, Qi, Qin, Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huangdi, sun tzu, the art of war, the warring states movie, Wei, Zhao
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