Hair Ornament

This is a hairpin in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Ming Dynasty. The recorded medium is silver. Its recorded diameter is 7 cm in diameter. Accession number 25.186.5, 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.