475-221 BCE
H. 4.8 x W. 1.8 x Thickness 0.5 cm (1 7/8 x 11/16 x 3/16 in.) Weight 9 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Iron
19th centuryTibetanLight brownish gray translucent nephrite with brown markings
5th-3rd century BCEChineseCreamy buff-colored nephrite with brownish markings
14th-8th century BCEChinesePale greenish, partly discolored nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseHighly polished, faintly translucent, cream-colored and gray-green nephrite
4th century BCEChineseMottled brownish stone with glossy, polished surfaces
1st-3rd century CEChineseOlive-green and gray nephrite blade; bronze haft inlaid with turquoise
12th-11th century BCEChineseLight brown nephrite
19th-20th centuryChineseOpaque, bone-colored and dark olive-green jade with traces of a dull reddish pigment
ChineseCreamy white nephrite with dark green markings, polished to a brilliant gloss
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseLight gray, brown, and dark brown translucent nephrite
3rd-1st century BCEChineseOpaque buff nephrite with bluish green spots
14th-11th century BCEChinese