206 BCE - 9 CE
L. 8.5 x W. 2.6 x D. 1.4 cm (3 3/8 x 1 x 9/16 in.) Weight 46 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Olive-green and brownish nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseStrongly calcified, originally gray-green nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseVariegated apple-green serpentine with grayish white clouds
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, light greenish gray neprhite with sparse brown markings
5th-3rd century BCEChineseStone
20th centuryChineseTranslucent creamy brown nephrite partly covered by a calcareous deposit
11th-8th century BCEChineseTranslucent dark green nephrite; turquoise inlay
11th-8th century BCEChineseStone
20th centuryChineseBuff, partly calcified nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseClouded gray-green, nearly opaque nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseTranslucent, light olive-green and ivory-colored, partly calcified nephrite
16th-11th century BCEChineseWhitish translucent nephrite with calcification
5th-3rd century BCEChinese