AN EXCEPTIONAL HAIR ORNAMENT TURQUOISE AND SILVER YURA FROM TIBET
A glorious antique Tibetan silver hair ornament. This beautiful large treasure has a large string hole which would have been used to tie it in to a women hair. With old turquoises on the front, turquoises  on the sides. There is some denting to the surface on one side. A silver sheet covers the underside, which may have been a later replacement but it still has some age and wear. This is the oldest example I have seen and is possibly 18th century. Wear according to age and use. Such beads were worn in the hair by upper class women in Lhasa. 
200g. 13cm x 11cm. The ruler in the photos is in inches
A highly collectable piece!
Ghose, M. (ed.), Vanishing Beauty: Asian Jewelry and Ritual Objects from the Barbara and David Kipper Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.