2nd-1st century BCE (?)
Chord 8.6 x W. 1.7 x Thickness 0.4 cm (3 3/8 x 11/16 x 3/16 in.) Weight 11 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Finely polished, partly calcified light brown nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseTranslucent, light gray-green nephrite with whitish and fawn-colored streaks
20th centuryChineseLarge and heavy disk of an inferior stone of brownish and greenish color, with a smooth but dull surface.
3rd millennium BCEChineseOpaque brownish gray nephrite enclosing a large area of translucent bluish green nephrite with whitish clouds
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseOpaque, gray-green and blackish, calcified nephrite
16th-11th century BCEChineseHuman femur bone and leather
19th centuryTibetanMottled bluish gray-green stone with darker markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled gray-green nephrite
1st millennium CEChineseGrayish yellow, marble-like stone with gray markings and surface cracks
16th-11th century BCEChineseMottled olive- and cream-colored nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseWhite glass with a greenish tinge
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseSlightly translucent, yellowish gray alabaster
11th-8th century BCEChinese