206 BCE - 9 CE
L. 5.1 x W. 1.2 cm (2 x 1/2 in.) Weight 10 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Greenish, partly discolored nephrite
14th-11th century BCEChineseGilt bronze with turquoise inlay
5th-3rd century BCEChineseMottled gray-green and dark brown stone
3rd millennium BCEChineseGilt bronze
17th-18th centuryTibetanLight green nephrite with light brown spots
5th-3rd century BCEChineseTranslucent, pale green nephrite with russet and dark brown markings
3rd-1st century BCEChineseCarved wood with ink and mineral pigments(?) (originally with dharani-wrapped rice grain)
15th-16th centuryJapaneseCeladon-green nephrite
3rd-1st century BCEChineseStone, silver, cotton
19th centuryOttomanGreen malachite with patches of black matrix
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseGilt bronze with inlaid glass
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseBlack stone
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChinese