6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE
Nephrite
ChineseDark olive-green nephrite with discolored buff areas
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseLight gray, greenish, and bone-colored, faintly translucent stone
6th-5th century BCEChineseBone-colored and mottled light brown nephrite blade; bronze haft
16th-11th century BCEChineseTranslucent, greenish-white nephrite with an intense russet streak on lower edge
4th-3rd century BCEChineseLight gray, greenish, and bone-colored, faintly translucent stone
6th-5th century BCEChineseBluish gray marble, calcified in part, with cinnabar stains
12th-11th century BCEChineseGilt bronze
17th-18th centuryTibetanCream, tan, and light gray nephrite with blackish spots
8th-5th century BCEChineseCeladon-green nephrite
3rd-1st century BCEChineseOpaque stone, mottled bluish gray and whitish, with adherences of soil
ChineseTranslucent gray-green nephrite with whitish parallel streaks
19th-20th centuryChinese