Of circular crown style, with a black velvet ground, decorated with vermilion weft. The crown top is composed of three phoenixes in two layers, separated by a pearl, the top set with a pearl. On the vermilion weft decorate with a circle of seven phoenixes with tourmaline on the back and pearls on the tails. Back the crown, pearls are draped in five rows of two, which means five strings of pearls are separated by lapis lazuli, dividing the pearls into two sections. According to the Da Qing Hui Dian, this was one of the highest ranking symbols in the Qing dynasty, and only the Empress or the Empress Dowager could deserve it, while those concubines below the Empress could only wear three rows of two. Width:29cm, Height:31cm, Literature Comparison：For a closely related crown from the Qing court collection, preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing [figure1], and another similar queen crown [figure2] can be seen in Gugong Bowuyuan Qingdai Houfei Shoushi, Beijing, Forbidden City Publish, p.18, figure1. Provenance: Private estate collection from Toshio Nomura. Toshio Nomura (1930-2014) was a Japanese businessman in Kansai area and a private collector. His maternal grandfather, Hisashi Ueno, began working at the Tianjin Concession Consulate in 1913. During his 27 years in China, he collected a large number of Chinese works of art, with a wide range of interests, particularly in porcelain and metal pieces. WALNUT TREE AUCTION HOUSE provides condition reports as a courtesy to our clients and assumes no liability for any error or omission. Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, and is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Descriptions are our opinions and should in no way be construed as a guarantee of any kind as to age, condition, mater.