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.
Variegated brown and yellow nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled light and dark brown stone
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEvenly light green, highly translucent nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, evenly gray-green nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseLight gray and russet, translucent stone with whitish and dark gray markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled olive-green and deep russet nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled dark green translucent nephrite with light gray markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBluish gray-green stone with black and light brown markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseLight gray and pale green, slightly calcified nephrite, polished smooth and glossy
3rd millennium BCEChineseA creamy gray-colored, fine-grained, opaque stone, polished to a soft sheen
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled bluish gray-green stone with darker markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, evenly pale green stone of a celadon hue with whitish specks
3rd millennium BCEChinese