c. 2500 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
H. 5.4 x Diam. 6 x Thickness of ring 0.6 cm (2 1/8 x 2 3/8 x 1/4 in.) Weight 120 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Cream-colored and russet stone with dark brown markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseGreen stone
4th-1st millennium BCEChineseBluish green and gray nephrite with buff markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseNephrite of two shades of celadon-green with cream-colored spots
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, pale green nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseLight gray and russet, translucent stone with whitish and dark gray markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseVariegated apple-green serpentine with grayish white clouds
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4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese