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EXHIBITION: “Kingfisher Headdresses from China” at The Art Institute of Chicago

The vivid feathers were expensive, with the most prized specimens imported from Cambodia and Vietnam. Artisans cut them to shape before painstakingly pasting the feathers onto gilded metal backing that formed the structure of the headdresses. Precious and semiprecious stones such as rubies, agate, and jadeite as well as other…

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22 May, 2022 25 August, 2022Exhibition
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