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.
Mottled light gray and brown stone
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4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, variegated light and dark green nephrite with light brown areas at opposite arcs
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseLight olive-green translucent nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseYellow and amber-colored stone with dark brown veins
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3rd millennium BCEChinese