商玉牛, Buffalo, Shang dynasty (ca. 1600–1046 ), 13th–11th century , China, Jade (nephrite), H. 1 5/8 in. ( cm); L. 2 1

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商玉牛, Buffalo, Shang dynasty (ca. 1600–1046 ), 13th–11th century , China, Jade (nephrite), H. 1 5/8 in. ( cm); L. 2 1/2 in. ( cm), Jade, Objects made of jade are thought to have played a ceremonial role in many Late Neolithic cultures. Harder than steel, jade (or nephrite) is laboriously fashioned by means of slow abrasion with sand or quartz grit

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