Pin

A1824

From: Chinese Turkestan

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number A1824
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese (uncertain)
Provenience Chinese Turkestan
Date Made 2nd Century BCE - c. 1900
Section Asian
Materials Bronze
Iconography Bird
Description

Bronze pin. In shape of bird. Square head and neck, triangular bill, impressed eye. Long narrow body, flat triangular spreading tail. Impressed decoration; notches and double concentric circles. Pin attachment underneath. Gift of Sir Marc Aurel Stein.

Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.