3rd-2nd century BCE
H. 6 cm (2 3/8 in.) Weight 22 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Strongly calcified and partly decomposed nephrite
ChineseTranslucent, greenish-white nephrite with an intense russet streak on lower edge
4th-3rd century BCEChineseWood
8th centuryJapaneseCarved wood with ink and mineral pigments(?) (originally with dharani-wrapped rice grain)
15th-16th centuryJapaneseBlack, fine-grained nephrite with sharply delineated grayish brown area
2nd millennium BCEChineseFine-grained, smoothly polished, variegated light and dark brown nephrite
2nd millennium BCEChineseMottled pale green and whitish nephrite, with traces of red pigment
12th-11th century BCEChineseOpaque, mottled light green and dark brown nephrite
20th centuryChineseNephrite
ChineseGreen nephrite with brown markings
1st millennium CEChineseCalcite
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseWood
8th centuryJapanese