Silver hairpin, song, liao, jin and yuan dynasties, 16.8 cm long.
Hair Ornament. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 24.171.3. CC0.

Zan (hairpin)

Hair Ornament

Chinese name
发饰
Pinyin
fashi
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
length 16.8 cm
Accession no.
24.171.3
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 silver. Its recorded length is 16.8 cm long. Accession number 24.171.3, fletcher Fund, 1924.

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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