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Object NameOrnament as a Pendant
Made FromGlass
Date1850-1949
Place MadeChina
TechniqueCast, cold-worked
SizeOverall H: 5.65 cm, W: 2.7 cm, Th: 0.8 cm
Accession Number51.6.448
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Exhibition of East Asiatic Glass
Not On View
Interpretive Notes
玻璃佩
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.
Provenance
Source Nellie B. Hussey - 1951
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