475 BCE - 221 BCE
3.3 x 5.5 x 0.2 cm (1 5/16 x 2 3/16 x 1/16 in.) unspecified: 7 g
Light creamy brown, mildly translucent nephrite, smoothly polished
11th-8th century BCEChineseMottled brownish stone with glossy, polished surfaces
1st-3rd century CEChineseBluish gray-green stone with black and light brown markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseLight gray stone
11th-8th century BCEChineseBluish green and buff, partly discolored nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseTranslucent yellowish nephrite cut from a fragment of a narrow disk
16th-11th century BCEChineseGray-green nephrite with lighter markings; some reddish earth and cinnabar remain on the left side
12th-10th century BCEChineseCarved wood with ink and mineral pigments (paper-wrapped rice grain inside?)
15th-16th centuryJapaneseLight gray and pale green, slightly calcified nephrite, polished smooth and glossy
3rd millennium BCEChineseHeavily altered nephrite
6th century BCEChineseLight gray and russet, translucent stone with whitish and dark gray markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent pale green nephrite
19th-20th centuryChinese