c. 1100-771 BCE
W. 1.1 x L. 10.2 x Thickness 0.3 cm (7/16 x 4 x 1/8 in.) Weight 6 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Translucent, light celadon-green nephrite with blackish brown streaks
5th-3rd century BCEChineseBronze
9th-8th century BCEIranianBluish gray-green stone with black and light brown markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseLight gray nephrite in a state of advanced calcification; cinnabar pigment
16th-11th century BCEChineseTranslucent gray-green, partly calcified nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseBlackish nephrite
2nd millennium BCEChineseBrownish yellow, faintly translucent, partly calcified nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseTranslucent celadon-green nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseLight gray, greenish, and bone-colored, faintly translucent stone
6th-5th century BCEChineseTranslucent, deep celadon-green nephrite with a few whitish markings
2nd millennium BCEChineseDeep green translucent nephrite, very slightly calcified
11th-8th century BCEChineseLight greenish gray nephrite with brown areas
5th-4th century BCEChinese