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Child's HeaddressEd1.278

Child’s cap made of silk gauze ribbons with three long ribbons hanging down the back and ties made of orange silk cord ending in red and white tassels. Front edge of cap is made of a black ribbon with three Chinese characters stamped in gold on each side. Perpendicular to this, going over the top of the head, is a ribbon of yellow green silk gauze stamped with gold flowers and a cicada and embroidered with a Chinese character in red. A ribbon of red silk stamped with gold Chinese characters goes around the head, and parallel to this a blue ribbon stamped with gold Chinese characters forms the lower edge of the cap. Over the ears are inserted triangles of pale w silk, each embroidered with a red and white flower. Most of the ribbons are lined with pink silk gauze. A black ribbon stamped with gold Chinese characters goes down the centre back, with a similarly stamped blue ribbon on each side. At the centre front is an ornament composed of five circles embroidered with flowers, stuffed to make them round. At the centre is a flower carved from grey-green stone, at the centre of which is a yellow bead. From this ornament hang five pink silk tassels, each wrapped in silver thread.

Culture
Korean
Material
silk fibre, dye, gold metal, silver metal, paste adhesive, jade mineral ? and wood
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ChopstickEd1.277

Tapering chopstick rounded at one end and oval at the other. Engraved with floral designs on the two sides of the wide end.

Culture
Korean
Material
silver metal and metal
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ChopstickEd1.276

Tapering chopstick rounded at one end and oval at the other. Engraved with floral designs on the two sides of the wide end.

Culture
Korean
Material
silver metal and metal
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ChopstickEd1.275

A metalwork chopstick with a blunt end. Handle tapers to a square end with an engraved floral design repeated on four sides.

Culture
Korean
Material
silver metal and metal
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ChopstickEd1.274

A metalwork chopstick with a blunt end. Handle tapers to a square end with an engraved floral design repeated on four sides.

Culture
Korean
Material
silver metal
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpoonEd1.273

A metalwork spoon with a flat handle that has a rectangular end engraved with a floral design. Bowl is deep and longer than wide. There is a silver mark on the back.

Culture
Korean
Material
silver alloy metal
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpoonEd1.272

A metalwork spoon with a straight handle of uniform width that is engraved near the end with a floral spray. Wide shallow bowl. There is a mark on the back.

Culture
Korean
Material
metal
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hair PinEd1.271

A flat hairpin made of gold-coloured metal tapering to an irregular point. A raised flower and an engraved stem decorate the pin. Above the flower, the pin widens into three discs, one above the other, each edged with a circle of tiny raised flowers. A small insect or flower shape is on the border between the discs. The top, and the bottom discs are inset with flat green stones while the middle disc is inset with a rounded red-orange stone. The uppermost green stone is incised with a curvilinear pattern. Chinese characters stamped on the back which is flat.

Culture
Korean
Material
gold metal ?, jade mineral ?, stone and carnelian mineral ?
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hair PinEd1.270

A flat hairpin made of gold-coloured metal tapering to an irregular point. A raised flower, and an engraved stem decorate the pin. Above the flower the pin widens into three discs, one above the other, each edged with a circle of tiny raised flowers. A small insect or flower shape is on the border between the discs. The top and the bottom discs are inset with flat green stones while the middle disc is inset with a rounded red-orange stone. The uppermost green stone is incised with a curvilinear pattern. Chinese characters stamped on the back which is flat.

Culture
Korean
Material
gold metal ?, jade mineral ?, stone and carnelian mineral
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hair PinEd1.269

A hairpin consisting of a flared tube of silver tapering to a long slender point with a translucent pink stone (rose quartz) inserted into the open end. The stone has an elongated double-lobed globular shape with a simple curvilinear carving. The pin is indented into three lobes at about one-third of the distance from the stone.

Culture
Korean
Material
silver metal and quartz mineral
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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