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Historical Archive: Jade, Jadeite, and Nephrite


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crocodile pendant, jadeite, Caribbean watershed 1-500 CE, DO PC.B.263, which has its own page
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Headdress mount(?), gold/garnet/glass/poss. jadeite, 2nd-3rd c., eastern Black Sea, Morgan 2012.2:105
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Nephrite terrapin, Mughal India c.1600, Allahabad, BM 1830,0612.1. For more information see BM Terrapin page.
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Nephrite terrapin, left side
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Nephrite terrapin, right side/back
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Nephrite terrapin, neck
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Nephrite terrapin, with person for scale
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Gorgon brooch, gold/opal/nephrite/jasper/emerald/pearl, Wilhelm Lucas von Cranach, Berlin 1902, KGM LG 147
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Gorgon brooch, center