2500–2200 BCE
H. 16.6 x W. 8 x D. 8 cm (6 9/16 x 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.) Weight 1956 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Translucent, variegated light and dark green nephrite with light brown areas at opposite arcs
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, pale greenish nephrite with buff and gray markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseLargely calcified, ivory-colored jade with a few dimly translucent, olive-green spots
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled green nephrite with long whitish streaks and a brownish area; Middle Yellow River basin, Shenmu Shimao contexts
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseBluish-green and gray stone with buff markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseLight green nephrite with tan spots, turning dark brown at the lower end
3rd millennium BCEChineseYellowish green and calcified, cream-colored nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseOpaque brownish gray nephrite enclosing a large area of translucent bluish green nephrite with whitish clouds
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBlack stone
3rd millennium BCEChineseVariegated brown and yellow nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBluish gray-green stone with black and light brown markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent stone in a relatively dark shade of celadon-green, becoming a greenish brown along the straight edge which has no teeth
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChinese