Ornament for a Headdress

This is a headdress ornament in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Qing Dynasty. The recorded medium is amber, pearl beads, coral, kingfisher blue. Its recorded length is 45.7 cm long. Accession number 35.140.3, fletcher Fund, 1935.

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.