2nd century BCE
21.1 x 5.1 x 3.3 cm (8 5/16 x 2 x 1 5/16 in.)
Mottled green nephrite with long whitish streaks and a brownish area; Middle Yellow River basin, Shenmu Shimao contexts
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChinesePolished, translucent, pale greenish gray nephrite with buff, calcified spots
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseTranslucent, pale brownish yellow nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseStone
ChineseCarved wood with ink and mineral pigments(?) (originally with dharani-wrapped rice grain)
15th-16th centuryJapaneseMottled olive- and cream-colored nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseIron
ChineseGreen nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseFragment of a thin-walled ring or bracelet of variegated gray-green neprhite
11th-10th century BCEChinesePale greenish, partly discolored nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseOriginally light green, now decomposed, whitish nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseBlack, fine-grained nephrite with sharply delineated grayish brown area
2nd millennium BCEChinese