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Tapered pendant
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Tapered pendant

ca. 3300-2250 BCE · Jade (nephrite)

From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Implement: Fid for untying knots; long three-sided object tapering to a point at each end, perforation near top bored from both sides; translucent, gray green with scattered mottlings of orange brown; one long and two shorter tool marks. (Old smoothed chip near top.)

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own description
Credit lineTapered pendant. ca. 3300-2250 BCE. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.

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