Headdress Ornament
A gilt metal headdress ornament forms a stylized flower cluster, its openwork petals and leaves filled with turquoise enamel outlined in fine gold wire. A large red glass bead anchors the central blossom, with smaller beads on the side flowers and loops at the base for attaching it to hair.
Look closer: Small gold loops hang beneath the lower flowers, used to attach the ornament.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1800s–1900s
- Medium
- Copper-silver alloy, gilding, kingfisher feathers, glass beads
- Source
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Size
- 2048 × 3072 px
Public domain · The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1999).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Ginaven