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.
Yellowish green and calcified, cream-colored nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled light and dark brown stone with a small green patch on the inner wall
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCalcified, whitish nephrite; only a few spots of the original dark green color remain
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBlackish green and light greenish gray nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseOpaque brownish gray nephrite enclosing a large area of translucent bluish green nephrite with whitish clouds
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled bluish gray-green nephrite with darker markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCreamy buff stone with brown markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent celadon-green nephrite with slightly calcified, cream-colored clouds
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBlackish brown nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, evenly pale green stone of a celadon hue with whitish specks
3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled green, bluish green, and buff nephrite
5th-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