Jade (nephrite) pendant, shang and zhou dynasties, 3.8 cm high.
Arc-shaped pendant (Huang), 5th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.89. CC0.

Pendant

Arc-shaped pendant (Huang)

Chinese name
佩饰
Pinyin
peishi
Dimensions
height 3.8 cm; width 17.1 cm
Accession no.
2009.89
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 height is 3.8 cm high. Accession number 2009.89, 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.

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