Concave-Walled Jade Cylinder (One of a Pair)
c. 3500 BCE - c. 2500 BCE
Dimensions
2.3 x 2.7 cm (7/8 x 1 1/16 in.) Weight: 22 g
Provenance
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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