c. 2500 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
Diam. 13.2 x Thickness 0.6 cm (5 3/16 x 1/4 in.) Weight 142 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Creamy buff stone with brown markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseVariegated creamy buff and light brown nephrite with two broad bluish green bands
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseGrayish green stone with light gray veins
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, pale greenish nephrite with buff and gray markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, evenly pale green nephrite with a few brown markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseGray-green nephrite with light and dark brown cloud-like markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, evenly pale green stone of a celadon hue with whitish specks
3rd millennium BCEChineseOlive-green and brownish nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled light and dark brown stone with a small green patch on the inner wall
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBone-colored, highly calcified nephrite with cinnabar adhering to the surfaces
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEvenly light green, highly translucent nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled bluish gray-green stone with darker markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese