Dragon pendant / Artist Unknown, China
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1960/2.113
- Title
- Dragon pendant
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Medium and Support
- dark brown hard stone with white calcification
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1300 BCE - circa 1100 BCE
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Henan (province)
- Anyang
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Henan (province)
- Creation Place 4
- Anyang
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from the collection of Max Loehr
- Dimensions
- 4.5 cm x 9.2 cm x 0.5 cm (1 3/4 in. x 3 5/8 in. x 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 13th-11th century BCE
- Primary Object Classification
- Jewelry
- Primary Object Type
- pendant
- Secondary Object Classification
- Ritual Objects
- Secondary Object Type
- animal figure
- Physical Description
- Highly stylized depiction of dragon design with tiger head, lower right portion broken off
- Subject Matter
- jade pendant of zoomorphic design and classic Late Shang style. The head is depicted as a feline with open mouth. Lower right portion broken off. Relief carving in double lines on surface. Used as pendant for high elite in Shang period, generally encountered as tomb furnishing in the Central Plains of northern China
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories worn
- descriptors
- inorganic material
- jewelry
- jewelry by form
- legendary creatures
- materials
- materials by composition
- objects we use
- rock
- rock by form
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 865 x 679
- File Size
- 48 KB
- Record
- 1960/2.113
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"Dragon pendant; Artist Unknown, China." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1960-sl-2.113/1960_2.113obv.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2024.