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Object NameOrnament as a Pendant

Made FromGlass

Date1850-1949

Place MadeChina; possibly Republic of China

TechniqueCast, cold-worked

SizeOverall H: 4.3 cm, W: 3.45 cm, Th: 1.3 cm

Accession Number51.6.480

Curatorial Area(s)

Exhibitions

Exhibition of East Asiatic Glass

On ViewEuropean Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

玻璃坠

Physical DescriptionOrnament as a Pendant. Transparent gold glass; cast, cold-worked. A thick, almost circular disc; sculptured design of a dragon head in full relief hugging the upper edge and looking forward at a young dragon, also in relief but in almost colorless glass; the dragon's body proceeds down on the reverse and through the central perforation where the body widens, almost completely filling the opening, the forked tail proceeding in low relief on the obverse; two well-cut notches on the bottom right edge and at the upper left a needlelike perforation drilled through the disc.
Provenance

Source Nellie B. Hussey - 1951