Jade (nephrite) pendant, shang and zhou dynasties, 3 cm high.
Arc-shaped pendant (Huang), 5th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.93. CC0.

Pendant

Arc-shaped pendant (Huang)

Chinese name
佩饰
Pinyin
peishi
Dimensions
height 3 cm; width 9.8 cm
Accession no.
2009.93
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 cm high. Accession number 2009.93, 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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