c. 2500- c. 2000 BCE
W. 11.2 x L. 61 x Thickness 0.7 cm (4 7/16 x 24 x 1/4 in.) Weight 926 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Bluish green and gray nephrite with buff markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseLight gray and russet, translucent stone with whitish and dark gray markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled dark green translucent nephrite with light gray markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseSlightly translucent, mottled dark green actinolite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBlack and blackish green stone
3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, pale green nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent celadon-green nephrite with slightly calcified, cream-colored clouds
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCreamy white nephrite with dark green markings, polished to a brilliant gloss
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent light green nephrite with opaque buff clouds; southeast Neolithic piece modified in the northwest
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseNephrite of two shades of celadon-green with cream-colored spots
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCream-colored and russet stone with dark brown markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseDeep black stone
3rd millennium BCEChinese