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 jade (nephrite). Its recorded length is 16 cm long. Accession number 65.86.171, alfred W. Hoyt Collection, Bequest of Rosina H. Hoppin, 1965.

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.