Jade (nephrite) pendant, shang and zhou dynasties, 3.3 cm long.
Frog pendant, 13th–10th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.214.95. CC0.

Pendant

Frog pendant

Chinese name
佩饰
Pinyin
peishi
Dimensions
length 3.3 cm; width 2.2 cm
Accession no.
1985.214.95
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 Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The recorded medium is jade. Its recorded length is 3.3 cm long. Accession number 1985.214.95, 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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