Some crested velvet flowers are particularly cheap because they are fakes.
Guan Feng velvet flower is a headdress created by Zhou Jiafeng, which has a typical artistic style of velvet flower in Ming Dynasty.
Guan Feng is the crown ornament of the empresses of ancient emperors, which is decorated with jewels similar to the phoenix. In the Ming Dynasty, the rockhopper was the ceremonial crown worn by the empress when she accepted books, visited temples and attended court meetings. Its shape inherited the system of Song Dynasty, and developed and perfected it to make it more elegant. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the colorful crowns used by ordinary women as ornaments were also called rockhopper crowns, which were mostly used for weddings.
The crown ornaments are mainly dragons and phoenixes, and the dragons are welded by gold wire overlapping process, which is hollow and full of three-dimensional sense; Phoenix sticks kingfisher hair, and its color is lasting and gorgeous. The pearls, gems and weights in the crown are all different. The largest one contains 128 gems, and the smallest one is 95. The maximum number of pearls is 5,449, and the minimum number is 3,426, with the maximum weight of 2,905g and the minimum weight of 2 165g. The crown is inlaid with dragons, phoenixes, gem flowers, Cui Yun, green leaves and spools. These parts are made separately, and then inserted into the sleeve of the crown to form the rockhopper. The rockhopper is solemn in shape and exquisitely made, and its crafts include filigree, inlay, chiseling and threading. Diancui covers a large area (there are 23 peaks in the four peaks, and there are hundreds of emerald green flowers in Cui Yun), with more than 400 gemstones embedded, and many beads and jewelry strings of all sizes. The final assembly is a very complicated process. The placement of various ornaments, the threading of thousands of pearls, the setting of hundreds of precious stones and the arrangement of many ornaments on a crown are all reasonable. The mouth of the rockhopper is decorated with jewels, and the golden dragon, the emerald phoenix and the jewels complement each other, which is magnificent and beyond the reach of ordinary craftsmen. On the phoenix's head, the golden dragon leaps over Cui Yun, while the emerald phoenix spreads its wings and flies between gems and leaves.