c. 400 BCE
5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.)
Mottled dark green and buff nephrite
3rd century BCE-1st century CEChineseGreenish gray, dimly translucent stone of homogeneous color and texture
8th-5th century BCEChineseBronze with turquoise inlay
14th-11th century BCEChineseCalcified, grayish white nephrite, originally greenish in color
12th-11th century BCEChineseBrownish green nephrite
16th-11th century BCEChineseLight green nephrite with whitish discolorations
19th-20th centuryChineseOpaque, light buff nephrite with bluish black markings
11th-8th century BCEChineseFaintly translucent nephrite of olive-green color; traces of cinnabar
5th-3rd century BCEChineseTranslucent, pale green nephrite
3rd millennium BCEChineseStone
20th centuryChineseStrongly calcified, originally gray-green nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseMottled whitish nephrite with sparse black veins
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese