Neolithic or Shang period, c. 2500 - c. 1500 BCE
H. 5 x W. 4.1 x Thickness 0.4 cm (1 15/16 x 1 5/8 x 3/16 in.) Weight 18 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Black nephrite
11th-8th century BCEChineseHighly polished, translucent brown and honey-colored nephrite
4th-3rd century BCEChineseProto-porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
5th-4th century BCEChineseBronze with jade fitting and wood handle
20th centuryTibetanMottled gray-green nephrite
1st millennium CEChineseBronze, leather, tooth
19th centuryTibetanOpaque buff nephrite with traces of cinnabar
11th-8th century BCEChineseMottled yellow nephrite
1st millennium CEChineseMottled pale green and whitish nephrite, with traces of red pigment
12th-11th century BCEChineseTranslucent greenish white nephrite
8th-5th century BCEChineseOpaque, cream-colored, cinnabar-stained nephrite
11th-10th century BCEChineseMildly translucent, light gray nephrite
12th-10th century BCEChinese