197 SOLD Vintage Guizhou Minority Cap with 8 Immortals

Sold to a discerning Antique Art-Lover

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Old Minority Ceremonial Cap for a child

Superb silk gimping and braid embroidery attached to a base cloth.

Embellished with metal images of the Eight Immortals attached

Bells on springs and two repousse pieces present.

Two ties with red auspicious ends.

Estimated to be from the 1960s

Guizhou Province, China

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This item has spent a lifetime being used for the purpose of its creation with the original artist/user. Signs of this life lived heartily may be present on the piece in the form of stains, thread loss, loose threads, holes, tears, color run and other imperfections. Therefore the condition must be assumed to be “not” perfect. More photos of such imperfections will be provided on request.

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