Gilt silver hairpin, sui and tang dynasties, 14.3 cm long.
Hair Ornament. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 24.177.1. CC0.

Zan (hairpin)

Hair Ornament

Chinese name
发饰
Pinyin
fashi
Dimensions
length 14.3 cm
Accession no.
24.177.1
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Techniques

This is a hairpin in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The recorded medium is gilt silver. Its recorded length is 14.3 cm long. Accession number 24.177.1, 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.

What the record says

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