Jade (nephrite) pendant, shang and zhou dynasties, 14 cm long.
Arc-shaped pendant (huang), 5th–4th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.665. CC0.

Pendant

Arc-shaped pendant (huang)

Chinese name
佩饰
Pinyin
peishi
Dimensions
length 14 cm
Accession no.
2001.665
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 (nephrite). Its recorded length is 14 cm long. Accession number 2001.665, purchase, Charlotte C. Weber Gift, 2001.

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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