pendant

Object NameOrnament as a Pendant

Made FromGlass

Date1850-1949

TechniqueCast, cold-worked

SizeOverall H: 5.65 cm, W: 2.7 cm, Th: 0.8 cm

Accession Number51.6.448

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern
Early Modern
Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Exhibition of East Asiatic Glass

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

玻璃佩

Place Made

China

Physical DescriptionOrnament as a Pendant. Transparent light green glass; cast, cold-worked. Roughly rectangular shape with horizontal incisions, suggesting the trunk of a bamboo tree on the obverse; on the reverse, shallower horizontal incisions and clustered bamboo leaves in low relief; edges have the same horizontal incisions and are slightly indented; at bottom, a band of indented dots; at upper right the cutting is distorted.
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