Jade (nephrite) armlet, qin and han dynasties, 8.3 cm across.
Bracelet. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 11.190.170. CC0.

Armlet

Bracelet

Chinese name
镯
Pinyin
zhuo
Dimensions
diameter 8.3 cm
Accession no.
11.190.170
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 jade. Its recorded diameter is 8.3 cm in diameter. Accession number 11.190.170, gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1911.

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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