Gold hairpin
- Chinese name
- 金簪
- Pinyin
- Date
- Ming Dynasty
- Medium
- Gold
- Dimensions
- height 2.1 cm; length 10.8 cm
- Accession no.
- 26.202.3
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A gold hairpin of the Ming dynasty, 10.8 cm long with a 2.1 cm head. The museum records the object name as "hairpin" and the material as gold. Its single shaft places it in the category the Chinese term zan describes; the English word "hairpin" does not distinguish it from a two-pronged chai.