Ornament for Headdress

This is a headdress ornament in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Qing Dynasty. The recorded medium is gold, feathers, seed pearls, moonstone, jadeite, garnet. Its recorded height is 4.4 cm high. Accession number 15.95.187, john Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915.

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.