1. Bought from Yamanaka 山中 and Company, New York. For price, see R. 5681, Reserved Miscellaneous List, p. 7.
2. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Original attribution: Han 漢. See above reference.
3. (Undated Folder Sheet note) Sp. G. is 2.933.
4. (Carl Whiting Bishop, 1922) See F1918.42 and F1918.43 for similarly shaped objects.
5. (Archibald Gibson Wenley, 1946) Han 漢 dynasty.
6. (Thomas Lawton, 1978) Period uncertain. Late Eastern Chou [Zhou] 周, Warring States period.
7. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 1, 2008) Jewelry added as secondary classification.
8. (Stephen Allee, November 17, 2008) Added "Yamanaka 山中 and Company, New York" to Constituents: Source. Changed Title from "Ornament, flat, of sickle form; two perforations" to "Pendant in the shape of a sickle." Changed Object Name from "Pendant: sickle" to "Jewelry (pendant)." Added Dimensions per Christine Lee, from Jade Project Database. Added "Warring States period" to Period Two.
9. (Susan Kitsoulis per Keith Wilson, May 24, 2010) Changed object name from "Jewelry (pendant)" to "Jewelry."
10. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, May 2, 2018) Title changed from "Pendant in the shape of a sickle" to "Pendant in the form of a dragon"; Period One changed from "Eastern Zhou dynasty" to "Late Shang dynasty"; Period Two changed from "Warring States period" to "Anyang period"; Date changed from "475-221 BCE" to "ca. 1300-ca. 1050 BCE"; Geography changed from "China" to "China, probably Henan province, Anyang"; Medium changed from "Jade" to "Jade (nephrite)"; Object name changed from "Jewelry" to "Pendant"; added Chinese Translation by Jingmin Zhang; and added the following Description, "Ornament; flat sickle-shaped pendant in form of stylized dragon, round perforation for eye and incision for mouth, smaller perforation for cord; translucent grayish green with dark gray clouding; areas of cream-colored disintegration and earth incrustation; red stain."