Earring

This is an earring in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Ming Dynasty. The recorded medium is gold. Its recorded diameter is 3.8 cm in diameter. Accession number 26.202.5, gift of James F. Ballard, 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.