c. 2500 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
H. 20.4 x W. 5.3 x Thickness 0.9 cm (8 1/16 x 2 1/16 x 3/8 in.) Weight 184 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Large and heavy disk of an inferior stone of brownish and greenish color, with a smooth but dull surface.
3rd millennium BCEChineseVariegated creamy buff and light brown nephrite with two broad bluish green bands
5th-3rd millennium BCEChinesePale sea-green nephrite turned mottled brown and buff on the exterior
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseYellowish green and calcified, cream-colored nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent, evenly gray-green nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseGrayish green stone with light gray veins
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEvenly light green, highly translucent nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseLight gray and pale green, slightly calcified nephrite, polished smooth and glossy
3rd millennium BCEChineseDark gray-green stone with black areas and light markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseCreamy buff stone with brown markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled gray-green and dark brown stone
3rd millennium BCEChineseCalcified, whitish nephrite; only a few spots of the original dark green color remain
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese