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.
Bluish gray-green stone with black and light brown markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseGrayish green stone with light gray veins
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBlackish brown nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled light gray and brown stone
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseIrregularly 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 BCEChineseVariegated creamy buff and light brown nephrite with two broad bluish green bands
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCalcified, whitish nephrite; only a few spots of the original dark green color remain
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseDeep black stone
3rd millennium BCEChineseLight green and brownish, strongly translucent nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled, olive-greenish nephrite with whitish markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseBluish gray-green stone with dark gray veins and a few buff areas
3rd millennium BCEChinese