Longshan culture (?), c. 2500 - c. 2000 BCE
Diam. 10.1 x Thickness 0.5 cm (4 x 3/16 in.) Weight 44 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Irregularly rounded, sturdy disk of a fine-grained, mottled dark brown stone
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseA creamy gray-colored, fine-grained, opaque stone, polished to a soft sheen
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseNephrite of two shades of celadon-green with cream-colored spots
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseNephrite of two shades of celadon-green with cream-colored spots
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled black and light gray nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled green nephrite with long whitish streaks and a brownish area; Middle Yellow River basin, Shenmu Shimao contexts
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseVariegated creamy buff and light brown nephrite with two broad bluish green bands
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled light gray and brown stone
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBluish gray-green stone with black and light brown markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseCreamy white nephrite with dark green markings, polished to a brilliant gloss
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled whitish nephrite with sparse black veins
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinesePale sea-green nephrite turned mottled brown and buff on the exterior
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese