Jade (nephrite) pendant, prehistoric china, 9 cm high.
Pendant. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 13.40.111. CC0.

Pendant

Pendant

Chinese name
佩饰
Pinyin
peishi
Dimensions
height 9 cm
Accession no.
13.40.111
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a pendant in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Prehistoric China. The recorded medium is jade. Its recorded height is 9 cm high. Accession number 13.40.111, gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1913.

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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