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.
Bluish gray-green stone with dark gray veins and a few buff areas
3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, evenly pale green stone of a celadon hue with whitish specks
3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled olive- and cream-colored nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCream-colored and russet stone with dark brown markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent stone in a relatively dark shade of celadon-green, becoming a greenish brown along the straight edge which has no teeth
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, deep celadon-green and opaque, bone-colored nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled light gray and brown stone
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseVariegated apple-green serpentine with grayish white clouds
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, pale celadon-green nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseIrregularly rounded, sturdy disk of a fine-grained, mottled dark brown stone
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBlackish green, fine-grained nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseLight gray and russet, translucent stone with whitish and dark gray markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese