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 4.8 cm in diameter. Accession number 25.186.6, 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.