Cylindrical bead
- Medium
- Jade (nephrite)
- Genre
- Jewelry and ornament
Styles
Tags
nephriteChinese ArtjadeArtcarvingLate Neolithic period (ca. 5000 - ca. 1700 BCE)Charles Lang Freer collection
About
Roughly cylindrical bead form with longitudinal perforation irregularly and conically bored from both sides leaving slight median ridge; broadly mottled brown, golden tan, and greenish gray; surface smooth except for small pits. (Old smoothed break on rim.) One of a set of nine; see F1916.384 and F1916.759 to F1916.766.