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.
Translucent, pale greenish nephrite with buff and gray markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseLargely calcified, ivory-colored jade with a few dimly translucent, olive-green spots
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseA creamy gray-colored, fine-grained, opaque stone, polished to a soft sheen
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseSlightly translucent, mottled dark green actinolite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseIrregularly rounded, sturdy disk of a fine-grained, mottled dark brown stone
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBone-colored, highly calcified nephrite with cinnabar adhering to the surfaces
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseLight bluish green and bone-colored nephrite with a lustrous polish
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseVariegated creamy buff and light brown nephrite with two broad bluish green bands
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled gray-green and dark brown stone
3rd millennium BCEChineseVariegated brown and yellow nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, pale green nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, pale celadon-green nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese