Hairpin

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 gilt silver, pearl. Its recorded length is 13.3 cm long. Accession number 26.191.2, fletcher Fund, 1926.

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.