Silver and glass hairpin, sui and tang dynasties, 25.1 cm long.
Hairpin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.214.18. CC0.

Zan (hairpin)

Hairpin

Chinese name
簪
Pinyin
zan
Medium
Silver, Glass
Dimensions
length 25.1 cm; diameter 2.5 cm
Accession no.
1985.214.18
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Techniques

This is a hairpin in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The recorded medium is silver inlaid with glass. Its recorded length is 25.1 cm long. Accession number 1985.214.18, gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985.

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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