12th-11th century BCE
L. 30.0 x W. 6.1 x Thickness 0.7 cm (11 13/16 x 2 3/8 x 1/4 in.) Weight 482 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Dark olive-green neprhite with cream-colored streaks
5th-3rd century BCEChineseTortoise-shell colored nephrite with areas of incipient calcification
4th-3rd century BCEChineseLight green stone with whitish clouds
8th-5th century BCEChineseDeep celadon-green and cream-colored, partly calcified nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCalcified, cream-colored nephrite, originally translucent pale green
5th-3rd century BCEChineseStrongly calcified, ivory-colored nephrite; traces of cinnabar
12th-11th century BCEChineseGreenish gray nephrite with whitish streaks; with gold leaf
16th-11th century BCEChineseBuff, partly calcified nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseBlackish green, fine-grained nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent light green nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseStone
20th centuryChineseClouded grayish brown nephrite
10th-9th century BCEChinese