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Tapered pendant by Charles Lang Freer, Zhonghui Huang — VisualArtsDB

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Jewelry and ornament
Tapered pendant

Tapered pendant

Tapered pendant

Charles Lang Freer Zhonghui Huang

Medium: Jade (nephrite)
Genre: Jewelry and ornament
Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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Jewelry and Ornament

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nephriteChinese ArtjadeArtcarvingLate Neolithic period (ca. 5000 - ca. 1700 BCE)Charles Lang Freer collection

About

Ornament; long, four sided pendant with a blunt end and a small perforated projection at top; translucent gray mottled with orange brown and a deep area of opaque dull brown showing decomposition. (Slightly chipped.)

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