serpentine (mineral)Chinese ArtjadeWestern Zhou dynasty (ca. 1050 - 771 BCE)Shang dynasty (ca. 1600 - ca. 1050 BCE)ArtCharles Lang Freer collection
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Squared hollow cylinder of the type ts’ung [cong] 琮; chocolate brown, finely mottled with gray. Smooth surface. (Two old cracks and some smoothed chips.) Serpentine.