6th-9th century
h. 8.3 cm x diam. 8.1 cm (3 1/4 x 3 3/16 in.)
Hagop Kevorkian collection (by 1947), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1975.
Mottled, light gray-green opaque stone
12th-11th century BCEChineseDark bluish green, largely discolored nephrite
12th-11th century BCEChineseGilt bronze
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseGilt bronze with crystal inlay
5th-3rd century BCEChineseBluish green nephrite with extensive, calcified white areas
ChineseTranslucent, pale brownish yellow nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseVariegated brown and yellow nephrite
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent light gray stone with brown markings
ChineseCreamy white nephrite, clouded with light gray, beginning to decompose at the now blunted point of the blade
16th-11th century BCEChineseTranslucent gray-green nephrite with whitish parallel streaks
19th-20th centuryChineseLight gray and russet, translucent stone with whitish and dark gray markings
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseLight sea-green, translucent nephrite with sparse light brown markings
Chinese