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A very similar gold hairpin discovered in a Song dynasty hoard of gold and silver at Pengzhou city, near Chengdu in Sichuan province in 1993, is illustrated in the excavation report, Sichuan Pengzhou Song dai jinyinqi jiao cang (The Song Dynasty Gold and Silver Hoard from Pengzhou in Sichuan), Beijing, 2003, col. pl. 7-1, and as a line drawing on p. 12, no. 12-5.

A pair of similar gold hairpins unearthed in 1975 from a Song dynasty tomb at Linjiang, Zhangshu city, Jiangxi province, is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu fenlei quanji, Zhongguo jin yin boli falang qi quanji (Illustrated Classification of Chinese Art, Chinese Gold, Silver, Glass, and Cloisonné), Vol. II, Gold and Silver (II), Shijiazhuang, 2004, p. 117, no. 211.

A pair of gold hairpins from the Mengdiexuan collection is illustrated by White, Bunker, and Chen in Adornment for Eternity: Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament, Denver, 1994, p. 184, no. 96, where the authors mention similar silver hairpins excavated from a Southern Song tomb in a suburb of Fuzhou, Fujian province, illustrated in Wenwu, 1977, No. 7, p. 10, no. 29. Two gold hairpins of this type are illustrated in Celestial Creations, Art of the Chinese Goldsmith: The Cheng Xun Tang Collection, Vol. I, Hong Kong, 2007, pp. 184-185, no. D03, and three smaller gold hairpins in the Muwen Tang Collection are illustrated by Kwan in Chinese Gold Ornaments, Hong Kong, 2003, pp. 396-397, no. 242.