Pendant

A pendant of silk worked with silvered and gilded paper and gold thread, using needleloop embroidery and knotting. At 84.5 cm in length it is far larger than a personal ornament would be; the museum records the function simply as "pendant", and the scale suggests a hanging furnishing or a component of a larger textile rather than something worn on the body. This is a case where the catalogue term and the physical evidence pull in different directions.