c. 3500 - c. 2500 BCE
Length 9.7 x Chord 7.9 x Thickness 0.4 cm (3 13/16 x 3 1/8 x 3/16 in.) Weight 83 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Greenish gray, dimly translucent stone of homogeneous color and texture
8th-5th century BCEChineseWhite, polished, partly corroded marble
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseCast bronze with greenish patina
5th-3rd century BCEChineseTranslucent, dark green nephrite
4th-1st century BCEChineseGreen and black nephrite
ChineseHeavily altered nephrite
6th century BCEChineseLight brownish gray translucent nephrite with brown markings
5th-3rd century BCEChineseMilky white glass with chalky corrosion
3rd-1st century BCEChineseBluish green and gray nephrite with buff markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseStone
20th centuryChineseOpaque, greenish brown and gray stone; cinnabar remaining in the grooves
1st millennium BCEChineseMottled gray-green nephrite
1st millennium CEChinese