206 BCE - 9 CE
H. 6.2 x W. 3.2 x D. 1.2 cm (2 7/16 x 1 1/4 x 1/2 in.) Weight 34 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Pale gray-green nephrite
4th century BCEChineseBow: bronze and string
19th centuryTibetanPale greenish, partly discolored nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseOpaque, bone-colored and dark olive-green jade with traces of a dull reddish pigment
ChineseHuman femur bone and leather
19th centuryTibetanGrayish green stone with light gray veins
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBrown nephrite
1st millennium BCE-1st millenium CEChineseLight gray stone of fibrous structure
10th century BCEChineseEvenly light brown and cream-colored, partly calcified nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChinesePale bluish green nephrite in an advanced state of calcification
16th-11th century BCEChineseLight bluish gray translucent nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseStone
20th centuryChinese