Jade (nephrite) armlet, qin and han dynasties, 12.5 cm high.
Armlet. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 02.18.329. CC0.

Armlet

Armlet

Chinese name
臂环
Pinyin
bihuan
Dimensions
height 12.5 cm; width 0.8 cm
Accession no.
02.18.329
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is an armlet in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Qin and Han Dynasties. The recorded medium is nephrite. Its recorded height is 12.5 cm high. Accession number 02.18.329, gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902.

This description is a direct summary of the museum's own record, not an independent assessment. It is awaiting editorial rewriting; the facts it states are the ones the holding institution asserts.

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