A zodiac pendant is intended to be worn during the year assigned to that sign, which for the goat means 2027. It is a birthday-year object as much as a new-year one, since anyone born in a goat year has one of these coming round every twelve years.
Carved from natural nephrite jade — one of only two minerals properly called jade — in relief, with the horns and the fold of the legs defined and the back left flat. Comes on a hand-knotted adjustable cord.