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CARVING RE-CUT OR LATER PERIOD, NOT MODERN
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Small Jade 'Cong' Ritual Implement
Unknown Artist
Dark brown stone
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Jade 'Bi' Disk
Unknown Artist, 11th cent. BCE - 771 BCE
Strongly translucent, apple-green nephrite with brown streaks and with opaque, light brown areas where calcification has taken place
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Jade Cylindrical Tube (one of a pair)
Unknown Artist, 3rd century BCE
Greenish white nephrite with sparse, light brown and gray markings
3rd century BCEChineseRitual Implements
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Unknown Artist, 4th-3rd century BCE
Highly polished, translucent brown and honey-colored nephrite
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Unknown Artist, 350-300 BCE
Pale gray-green nephrite
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Small Trapezoidal Jade Knife
Unknown Artist, Longshan culture (?), c. 2500 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
Mottled, olive-greenish nephrite with whitish markings
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Unknown Artist, 475 - 221 BCE
Cast bronze with greenish patina
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CARVING(KNEELING GOAT) RE-CUT OR LATER NOT MODERN
Unknown Artist
Stone
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Small Jade Dagger-Axe
Unknown Artist, 16th cent. BCE - 11th cent. BCE
Creamy white nephrite, beautifully polished but partly calcified; cinnabar stains on the left side of the blade
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TUBE
Unknown Artist, 20th century
Stone
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Jade Garment Hook (one of a pair)
Unknown Artist, 206 BCE - 220 CE (?)
Dark olive-green nephrite with discolored buff areas
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Jade Fish, Recarved from a Handle
Unknown Artist, late Western Zhou (?), c. 9th cent. BCE - 771 BCE
Creamy brown nephrite; traces of cinnabar
9th-8th century BCEChinese