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.
Nephrite of two shades of celadon-green with cream-colored spots
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled bluish gray-green stone with darker markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseVariegated creamy buff and light brown nephrite with two broad bluish green bands
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCreamy buff stone with brown markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, variegated light and dark green nephrite with light brown areas at opposite arcs
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent celadon-green nephrite with slightly calcified, cream-colored clouds
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBlackish green and light greenish gray nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseLight grayish green translucent nephrite with tan and whitish markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled bluish gray-green nephrite with darker markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinesePale green nephrite with russet markings and a dark brown spot
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseDeep celadon-green and cream-colored, partly calcified nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled light and dark brown stone with a small green patch on the inner wall
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese