Chinese carved jade cicada

An image of Carving. Greyish green jade with extensively altered surfaces. The upper surface decorated with head, prominent eyes and wings, on the underside the ribbed body. Nephrite, length 5.9 cm, width 3.3 cm, 200-1 B.C. Chinese.

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Carving. Greyish green jade with extensively altered surfaces. The upper surface decorated with head, prominent eyes and wings, on the underside the ribbed body. Nephrite, length 5.9 cm, width 3.3 cm, 200-1 B.C. Chinese.

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Accession Number: O.25-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 629 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 271.71kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2007:11:24 16:40:05

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2nd Century BC carved Chinese cicada Fitz_AA insects jade nephrite wings

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