Jade (nephrite) headdress ornament, song, liao, jin and yuan dynasties, 5.6 cm high.
Headdress ornament, 13th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 02.18.392. CC0.

Headdress fragment

Headdress ornament

Chinese name
头饰
Pinyin
toushi
Dimensions
height 5.6 cm; width 4.5 cm
Accession no.
02.18.392
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 5.6 cm high. Accession number 02.18.392, gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902.

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