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A jade sculpture of a silhouette of a fish that is long and thin in shape. There are engraved lines to show details of fins, a circle for an eye, and a hole through the nose.

Elongated Jade Fish Silhouette

Chinese

Clouded bluish gray-green, faintly translucent nephrite

Zhou dynasty, Western Zhou period, c. 1050-771 BCE

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