6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE
Bronze
ChineseLight olive-green and cream-colored translucent nephrite, showing signs of incipient calicification; traces of cinnabar on the right side
ChineseOpaque, bone-colored stone, partially decomposed
5th-3rd century BCEChineseTranslucent bluish green nephrite with brown markings
5th-3rd century BCEChineseLight gray, brown, and dark brown translucent nephrite
3rd-1st century BCEChineseSmoothly polished, opaque buff and cream-colored nephrite
14th-11th century BCEChineseTranslucent light green nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseYellowish green translucent nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseMottled whitish nephrite with sparse black veins
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseNephrite blade; bronze socket inlaid with turquoise
12th-11th century BCEChineseMottled yellow nephrite
1st millennium CEChineseTranslucent, mottled green nephrite
8th-5th century BCEChinese