A SET OF ELEVEN GILT SILVER REPOUSSÉ HEADDRESS ORNAMENTS, QING OR EARLIER China, 1644-1912 or earlier. Comprising three larger and eight smaller headdress ornaments. Finely chased and pierced, the smaller ornaments depict the Eight Immortals while the larger ornaments depict the Sanxing, the three Star Gods Fu, Lu, and Shou. The Daoist immortals depicted include Shoulao with a deer, Li Tieguai with his crutch and gourd, Han Xiangzi with his flute, Lan Caihe with a flower basket, and Zhongli Quan holding a fan. Some with hallmarks.

Provenance: Collection of Sidney Ogden-Smith, thence by descent within the same family to the present owner. Sidney Ogden-Smith (d. 1952) was a British army officer, serving as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals during the Second World War, Chief Provost in North Africa, the Middle East, Port Said in Egypt, and Cyprus, and as one of Britain’s last mandate army officers in Palestine, also working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in Jerusalem before settling in Beirut, Lebanon.
Condition: Excellent condition, commensurate with age. Old wear, minor dents and nicks, minuscule losses, warping.

Weight: 46.3 g (total)
Dimensions: Height 6 cm (the largest) and 4 cm (the smallest)

Literature comparison: Compare a closely related gold finial depicting a bodhisattva and attendants, dated to the Liao dynasty, in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number 64.12.26.

Auction result comparison: Compare a related gold repoussé ornament (7.5 cm high) depicting Guanyin, sold in these rooms in Fine Chinese Art, Buddhism and Hinduism on 25 April 2020, lot 41, for EUR 8,216. 清代或更早一組十一件鎏金銀锤揲八仙福祿壽帽花
中國，1644-1912年或更早。一組帽花，分別是福祿壽三仙與八仙，一共十一枚。紋飾精雕細琢，各仙都手持自己的法器，生動活潑。因爲八仙和福祿壽三仙都寄託了美好祝福，在中國民間，很多器物上刻有他們的圖案。有些刻有印款。

來源：Sidney Ogden-Smith 收藏，保存在同一家族直至現任擁有者。Sidney Ogden-Smith （卒於 1952 年）是一名英國軍官，二戰期間擔任皇家信號兵團少尉以及北非、中東、埃及塞得港和塞浦路斯的首席教務長。作為英國在巴勒斯坦的最後一名授權軍官之一，在定居黎巴嫩貝魯特之前，他還在耶路撒冷的聯合國近東巴勒斯坦難民救濟和工程處工作。
品相：狀況極佳，與年齡相仿。 磨損、輕微凹痕和刻痕、微小缺損、翹曲。

重量：總3 克
尺寸：最高6 厘米，最小4 厘米

拍賣結果比較：比較一件相近锤揲 (高7.5 厘米 ) 觀音飾物，在本藝廊Fine Chinese Art, Buddhism and Hinduism 2020年4月25日 lot 41, 售價EUR 8,216。