Small nephrite pendant with carved surface detail
Pendant, 960–1279. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.50. CC0.

Pendant

Pendant

Chinese name
玉佩
Pinyin
yu pei
Dimensions
height 6.1 cm
Accession no.
1917.50
Collection
The Cleveland Museum of Art

A jade pendant of the Song period. Song jade work is generally smaller in scale and more naturalistic in subject than earlier court work, and survives in greater quantity from non-elite contexts.

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