Jade (nephrite) pendant, prehistoric china, 3.5 cm high.
Ivory Tone Pendant, ca. 2400–2000 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994.605.3. CC0.

Pendant

Ivory Tone Pendant

Chinese name
佩饰
Pinyin
peishi
Dimensions
height 3.5 cm; length 6.5 cm
Accession no.
1994.605.3
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 Prehistoric China. The recorded medium is jade (Nephrite). Its recorded height is 3.5 cm high. Accession number 1994.605.3, charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994.

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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