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Asian Art
Public domain

Pendant (Huang) Terminating in Tigers’ Heads

6th–5th century b.c.e.

Jade (nephrite)

1 1/8 × 3 in. (2.9 × 7.6 cm)
Gift of Dr. Howard, B.S. 1943, and Mrs. Carolyn Balensweig
1973.162.15
Geography: 
China
Culture: 
Chinese
Period: 
Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–221 B.C.E.)
Classification: 
Jewelry
Provenance: 

Dr. Howard Balensweig, (1921–2011) and Carolyn Balensweig, (born 1945), New York: gift in 1973 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

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