Headdress ornament

This is a headdress ornament in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties. The recorded medium is jade (nephrite). Its recorded height is 4.2 cm high. Accession number 02.18.391, 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.