1392-1568
H. 9.3 x W. 2.4 x D. 2.2 cm (3 11/16 x 15/16 x 7/8 in.)
[London Gallery, Tokyo, (by 2004)], sold; to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA, (2004-2014), gift from Sylvan Barnet and bequest from William Burto; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2014.
Calcified and discolored nephrite, orginally olive-green in color
ChineseTranslucent, evenly pale green stone of a celadon hue with whitish specks
3rd millennium BCEChineseOpaque buff nephrite with bluish green spots
14th-11th century BCEChineseGreen malachite with patches of black matrix
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChinesePale celadon-green nephrite with grayish-brown markings
5th-3rd century BCEChineseDark brown and beige mottled nephrite
3rd century BCEChineseTranslucent greenish white, partly calcified nephrite
5th-3rd century BCEChineseTranslucent, light greenish gray nephrite with light brown markings and creamy white calcified streaks
ChineseTranslucent light green nephrite with opaque buff clouds; southeast Neolithic piece modified in the northwest
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseDark olive-green and cream-colored, partly decomposed nephrite
1st-3rd century CEChinesePale yellowish green translucent nephrite with tan and brown markings
5th-4th century BCEChineseBronze
9th-8th century BCEIranian