Pendant in the shape of a silk worm

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 4.8 cm long. Accession number 2006.398, purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2006.

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.