Arc-shaped pendant (<em>huang</em> ç), made from a disk (<em>bi</em> ç§)
ca. 3000-ca. 1700 BCE
Classification
Jewelry and Ornament
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number
F1916.379
Tags
About this artwork
Semi circular plaque of the type huang ç; inner curve conically bored; obverse: closely mottled olive and yellow greens with golden brown roughened areas near outer rim; reverse: mottled yellow browns with traces of greens, surface roughened and discolored with incipient disintegration; four functional holes. (Rim chipped and worn.)
About the Artist
Unknown
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