Tourmaline pendant, with floral designs, qing dynasty, 5.7 cm high.
Pendant with floral designs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21.175.127. CC0.

Pendant

Pendant with floral designs

Chinese name
佩饰
Pinyin
peishi
Dimensions
height 5.7 cm
Accession no.
21.175.127
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 Qing Dynasty. The recorded medium is tourmaline. Its recorded height is 5.7 cm high. Accession number 21.175.127, bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921.

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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