Ritual ImplementsChinese4th-3rd millennium BCE
Jade Wrist Guard (?)
c. 3500 - c. 2500 BCE
Dimensions
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
Provenance
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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