Gilt silver hairpin, ming dynasty, 12.1 cm high.
Hairpin, 17th century or earlier. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 34.64.4. CC0.

Zan (hairpin)

Hairpin

Chinese name
簪
Pinyin
zan
Dimensions
height 12.1 cm; width 5.7 cm
Accession no.
34.64.4
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Techniques

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. Its recorded height is 12.1 cm high. Accession number 34.64.4, fletcher Fund, 1934.

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.

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