5th-4th century BCE
H. 8.6 x W. 2.5 x Thickness 0.5 cm (3 3/8 x 1 x 3/16 in.) Weight 18 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Dark olive-green nephrite with discolored buff areas
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseTranslucent light green and whitish nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseBluish gray-green stone with dark gray veins and a few buff areas
3rd millennium BCEChineseBone
14th-13th century BCEEgyptianMottled, pale olive-green, bluish, and cream-colored nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseStrongly calcified and partly decomposed nephrite
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3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseTranslucent pale green nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseStrongly calcified, originally gray-green nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseMixed copper alloy
6th-9th centuryByzantineVariegated light brown nephrite
4th-2nd millennium BCEChineseGilt bronze with openwork, incised, and repoussé decoration; from a set housed at the temple Jōgon-in, Shiga prefecture
13th centuryJapanese