Silver comb, song, liao, jin and yuan dynasties, 5.1 cm high.
Comb. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 25.186.3. CC0.

Shu (comb)

Comb

Chinese name
梳
Pinyin
shu
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
height 5.1 cm; width 8.9 cm
Accession no.
25.186.3
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a comb 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 height is 5.1 cm high. Accession number 25.186.3, fletcher Fund, 1925.

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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