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Twenty-One Pebbles

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a black-and-white photograph of twenty-one pebbles arranged in three horizontal rows. The pebbles are predominantly dark gray with some lighter gray and white ones. The top row contains seven pebbles, the middle row contains seven pebbles, and the bottom row contains seven pebbles. The pebbles are all different shapes and sizes. Some of the pebbles have numbers written on them in black ink. The background is a plain white surface, possibly paper or a table. There is handwritten text at the bottom center of the image that reads "A to U". The title of the image is "Twenty-One Pebbles" by an unknown artist.

Artwork details

Medium:
Nephrite
Culture:
China, Turkestan
Dimensions:
599 × 423 px
Museum record:
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