harness pendant(五角形杏葉);
horse-harness
- Museum number
- OA+.2994
- Description
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Horse harness pendant, made of gilt bronze; pendant in pentagonal shape with triangular buckle.
- Production date
- 6thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 8 centimetres
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Width: 6 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Pendants
Iron, copper, silver, gold, about AD 500
Given by sir A.W.Franks (Gowland Collection)
馬具
Decorative horse equipment
Rulers were buried in tombs with their weapons and decorative horse equipment.
The leather straps were bound with patterned silk textiles and hung with gilded pendants.
The shape of the pendants may imitate arrowheads or tassels. Very similar ones were made in the Korean peninsula during the same period, which may then have been imported into Japan. There were also decorative metal fittings on the saddled and bosses where the leather straps joined.
(Label Copy, 2017)
- Location
- On display (G93/dc5/sG)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 Oct 13-, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Acquisition date
- 1889 (15 April)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- OA+.2994