475 - 221 BCE
Diam. 11 x Thickness 0.4 cm (4 5/16 x 3/16 in.) Weight 74 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Green stone
4th-1st millennium BCEChineseOpaque, cream-colored and whitish nephrite, somewhat calcified
4th-3rd century BCEChineseCreamy gray-green and green nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseDark green and opaque gray, slightly calcified nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseGreen malachite with patches of black matrix
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseDark muddy gray-brown nephrite
19th-20th centuryChineseStone
ChineseStone
MongolianMottled light gray and whitish opaque nephrite blade; bronze haft
16th-11th century BCEChineseMottled bluish green nephrite that has largely turned to an opaque, light buff color with dark brown markings
14th-8th century BCEChineseGreenish gray nephrite with tan and brown markings
5th-4th century BCEChineseIron
Japanese