c. 3500 BCE - c. 2500 BCE
2.3 x 2.7 cm (7/8 x 1 1/16 in.) Weight: 22 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Bluish green and buff, partly discolored nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseBluish gray, translucent, brown-flecked stone
19th-20th centuryChineseLight gray, greenish, and bone-colored, faintly translucent stone
6th-5th century BCEChineseIron with gold inlay.
JapaneseBlack stone
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseLight olive-green translucent nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseWhitish, almost transparent nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseYellow and red-brown stone
1st millennium BCE-1st millenium CEChineseBluish gray-green stone with dark gray veins and a few buff areas
3rd millennium BCEChineseFine-grained grayish black stone
11th-10th century BCEChineseMottled light brown stone with fine dark veins; traces of cinnabar on the surface
16th-11th century BCEChineseCalcified, grayish white nephrite, originally greenish in color
12th-11th century BCEChinese