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18TH CENTURYThe exterior densely covered with red silk floss, the conical frame rising to an ovoid silver hat finial mounted on a gilt-silver openwork mount decorated with six phoenix in flight amidst swirling clouds, the edge beneath the brim with silver-wrapped ribbon, with a deep pink silk lining to the interior, the hat box with a hinged cover and clasp to one side, painted in gilt with beribboned precious objects and foliate sprays against a black ground, with a red interior, all surmounted by a reticulated gilt- metal flowerhead centred by a lobed finial, 31cm. (2)This type of hat is a less formal summer hat which would have been worn at semi-formal events with a jifu by a ninth-rank official, indicated by the silver hat finial.Provenance: formerly the collection of Linda Wrigglesworth, acquired in London in 1980; and then a private collection, London, purchased from Christie's New York, 19th March 2008, The Imperial Wardrobe: Fine Chinese Costume and Textiles from the Linda Wrigglesworth Collection, lot 127.Illustrated: G Dickinson and L Wrigglesworth, Imperial Wardrobe, p.108, pl.90.