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.
Light yellowish brown, partly calcified, faintly translucent nephrite
10th-9th century BCEChineseTranslucent, light gray-green stone with brown clouds
19th-20th centuryChineseTranslucent greenish and gray nephrite of lighter and darker hues
4th-3rd century BCEChineseMottled green and russet, faintly translucent stone
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseGreenish-gray, partially translucent nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChinesePale, translucent green nephrite with creamy brown markings
3rd century BCEChineseEvenly dark brown, faintly translucent nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseBronze
ChineseYellow and amber-colored stone with dark brown veins
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent light green stone with large, opaque buff-colored areas
ChineseStrongly calcified, originally gray-green nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseTranslucent, deep celadon-green nephrite with a few whitish markings
2nd millennium BCEChinese