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.
Blackish brown nephrite, turning deep gold-brown at the translucent edges
3rd millennium BCEChineseIrregularly rounded, sturdy disk of a fine-grained, mottled dark brown stone
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBluish gray-green stone with black and light brown markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseDark gray-green stone with black areas and light markings
3rd millennium BCEChineseLight olive-green translucent nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseDark green, fairly translucent stone with light gray and gold-brown markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinesePale sea-green nephrite turned mottled brown and buff on the exterior
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseOlive-green and brownish nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseBone-colored, highly calcified nephrite with cinnabar adhering to the surfaces
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseOpaque brownish gray nephrite enclosing a large area of translucent bluish green nephrite with whitish clouds
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseYellow and amber-colored stone with dark brown veins
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBluish gray-green stone with black and light brown markings
3rd millennium BCEChinese