Subject: 知縣 zhīxiàn mandarin as local magistrate
Culture: Sino-Manchurian
Setting: late Qing empire, China 19thc
Object: costume
Leeds City Museum > Voices of Asia *
"Official's hat China, 1890s
Black silk hat with red tassel fringe worn by mandarins or government officials during the Qing dynasty.
Different ranks wore different spherical ornaments, here the ornament is a plain crystal."
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