Pendant
CultureChinese
DateWestern Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.E.)
MediumJade (nephrite)
DimensionsOverall: 15/16 × 3/16 × 3 13/16 inches (2.38 × 0.48 × 9.68 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number47-33
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
Gallery LabelA material that was durable and valued, jade was frequently handed down for generations, centuries or even millennia, before being buried in a tomb. Although these pendants were made at different times, it would have been quite possible for them to have been strung in the manner that they are displayed here, for use as a pectoral, or chest ornament. The top two plaques and the disc date to the 4th to 3rd century B.C.E. The third from top is less delicate and may therefore be slightly older, probably 4th century. The dragons and bird heads on the bottom pendant are typical of middle to late Western Zhou, circa the late 10th-9th century B.C.E.
Robert Rousset;
Purchased from Robert Rousset by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.
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