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Bird pendant
Bird pendant

Bird pendant

Date11th - 9th century B.C.
Label TextThis type of small pendant is regularly found in burial excavations, and spoken of in the literary record as part of the ceremonial garb, since at least the first millennia B.C.
Object number49.238
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, "Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective", December 22, 2007 - July 26, 2009 (12/22/2007 - 7/26/2009)
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions7/8 x 3/16 in. (2.22 x 0.48 cm) L.: 1 in.
MediumNephrite
Bird Pendant
Chinese
11th century B.C. - 9th century B.C.
Object number: 39.12
Bird Pendant
Chinese
11th-10th century B.C.
Object number: 39.13
Chinese
18th-19th century
Object number: 33.1320
Pendant
Chinese
1736-1795
Object number: 33.1321
Entwined snake pendant
Chinese
13th - 15th century
Object number: 33.1322
Pendant in form of swan
Chinese
17th-19th century
Object number: 33.1329
Pendant
Chinese
14th - 15th century
Object number: 33.1344
Chinese
8th Century
Object number: 53.39
Pendant
Chinese
1736 - 95
Object number: 33.60
Girdle pendant
Chinese
1760-1812
Object number: 33.69.1
Girdle pendant
Chinese
1760-1812
Object number: 33.69.2
Pendant
Chinese
481 - 256 B.C.
Object number: 35.9