Pendant in the shape of a dragon

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 height is 6 cm high. Accession number 2008.285, purchase, Sir Joseph Hotung Gift, 2008.

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.