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Arc-shaped pendant (<em>huang</em> 璜), made from a disk (<em>bi</em> 璧)
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Semi circular plaque of the type huang 璜; 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.)
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionCredit lineArc-shaped pendant (<em>huang</em> 璜), made from a disk (<em>bi</em> 璧). ca. 3000-ca. 1700 BCE. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
