Hair ornament

This is a hairpin in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties. The recorded medium is lacquer, gilt wood. Its recorded height is 5.4 cm high. Accession number 2015.500.1.115, gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015.

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.