475 BCE - 221 BCE
0.5 x 7.4 cm (3/16 x 2 15/16 in.) unspecified: 50 g
Light brownish gray, strongly translucent nephrite
2nd millennium BCEChineseLight buff, slightly translucent nephrite with bluish gray spots and black markings
12th-11th century BCEChineseTranslucent gray-green, partly calcified nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseBronze with greenish patina
6th-5th century BCEChineseTranslucent stone in a relatively dark shade of celadon-green, becoming a greenish brown along the straight edge which has no teeth
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseMilky white glass with chalky corrosion
3rd-1st century BCEChineseEarthenware with traces of pigment
8th-12th centuryJapaneseVariegated gray-green stone with black veins
19th-20th centuryChineseCast bronze
1st millennium BCEChineseStone
20th centuryChineseCarved wood with ink and mineral pigments(?) (originally with dharani-wrapped rice grain)
15th-16th centuryJapaneseHighly polished, pale greenish and dark brown translucent nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChinese