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A pale green jade disk with a circle cut out in the middle. There is a pattern of small circles throughout the piece. There are some dark brown discolored spots along the outer and inner edges.

Large Jade Disk

Chinese

Clouded, translucent grayish green nephrite with variegated light brown markings on one side and large areas of dark brown and grass-green on the other; with imperially inscribed poem around the rim dating to 1766

Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE

Ritual Implements