Mottled green and gray nephrite blade with dark brown markings and with deposits of earth and bronze oxide on both faces; bronze socket inlaid with turquoise

12th-11th century BCEChinese

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Jade Animal Figure (one of a pair)

Unknown Artist, late 19th - early 20th century

Translucent gray-green nephrite with whitish parallel streaks

19th-20th centuryChinese

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Belt Hook with Glass Inlay

Unknown Artist, 3rd century BCE-3rd century CE

Gilt bronze with inlaid glass

3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChinese

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Jade Statuette of a Standing Dignitary

Unknown Artist, 12th-11th century BCE

Calcified, grayish white nephrite, originally greenish in color

12th-11th century BCEChinese

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Jade Cicada

Unknown Artist, 1st century CE

Creamy white and yellowish, opaque stone with a glossy polish partly weathered

1st century CEChinese

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Thin Trapezoidal Jade Knife with a Cutout

Unknown Artist, c. 2500 BCE - c. 2000 BCE

Black and blackish green stone

3rd millennium BCEChinese

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Jade Knife-Shaped Tablet with Perforations

Unknown Artist, date uncertain

Buff nephrite

1st millennium BCEChinese

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Jade 'Huang' Segment with Animal Heads

Unknown Artist, 475 - 221 BCE

Mottled grayish green, rather heavily calcified nephrite

5th-3rd century BCEChinese

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Jade Pendant in the Shape of a Human Figure

Unknown Artist, 475-221 BCE

Yellowish green nephrite with light brown calcified spots

5th-3rd century BCEChinese

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Crossed Vajras (Katsuma vajra)

Unknown Artist, 11th century

Gilt bronze

11th centuryJapanese

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KUEI (PLAIN CARVING WITH POINTED END) RE-CUT OR LA TER PERIOD, NOT MODERN

Unknown Artist

Stone

Chinese