Pendant in the shape of a bird

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 9.4 cm high. Accession number 2009.87, purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2009.

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.