Mottled green and gray nephrite blade with dark brown markings and with deposits of earth and bronze oxide on both faces; bronze socket inlaid with turquoise

12th-11th century BCEChinese

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Serrate Jade Disk

Unknown Artist, 770 - 476 BCE

Originally translucent, soft green nephrite now partially calcified to an opaque ivory color

8th-5th century BCEChinese

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THUMB RING

Unknown Artist, 20th century

Stone

20th centuryChinese

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Small, Heavy Jade Axe

Unknown Artist, c. 2000 BCE - c. 1000 BCE

Fine-grained, smoothly polished, variegated light and dark brown nephrite

2nd millennium BCEChinese

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Concave-Walled Jade Cylinder (One of a Pair)

Unknown Artist, c. 3500 BCE - c. 2500 BCE

Nephrite of two shades of celadon-green with cream-colored spots

4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese

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Sarcophagus-Shaped Reliquary Box

Unknown Artist, late 7th cent. - 9th cent.

Gilt and silvered bronze

7th-9th centuryChinese

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Slice of a "Cong" Cylinder

Unknown Artist, Late 3rd or early 2nd millennium BCE

Translucent light green nephrite with opaque buff clouds; southeast Neolithic piece modified in the northwest

3rd-2nd millennium BCEChinese

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Large Jade 'Cong'

Unknown Artist, 20th century

Stone

20th centuryChinese

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Ornamental Jade Belt Plaque (one from a set of twelve)

Unknown Artist, 6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE

Light gray, greenish, and bone-colored, faintly translucent stone

6th-5th century BCEChinese

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SMALL PI RE-CUT OR LATER NOT MODERN

Unknown Artist

Stone

Chinese

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Jade Curved Fish with Jagged Dorsal Fin

Unknown Artist, 16th-8th century BCE

Light olive-green and cream-colored translucent nephrite, showing signs of incipient calicification; traces of cinnabar on the right side

Chinese