729 Colorful Nosed Black Silk Han Chinese Tiger Hat
Colorful-Nosed Black Silk Brocade Han Chinese Tiger Wind Hat. Well-featured Tiger face with multi-colored nose, 3-D folded silver paper eyebrows, and sweetly embroidered ears. The protective tiger is edged with silk braids and couched gold threads; commercial silk border ribbons are in good condition except for a section on the bottom back left; nice and clean; lined with a cotton print of large flowers on black; likely from Shaanxi Province; c 1920s -1930s; 20” circumference;
Colorful-Nosed Black Silk Brocade Han Chinese Tiger Wind Hat. Well featured Tiger face with multi-colored nose, 3-D folded silver paper eyebrows, and sweetly embroidered ears. The protective tiger is edged with silk braids and couched gold threads; commercial silk border ribbons are in good condition except for a section on the bottom back left; nice and clean; lined with a cotton print of large flowers on black; likely from Shaanxi Province; c 1920s -1930s; 20” circumference;