Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Terracotta
6th century BCEGreekAlabaster
GreekLight gray stoneware with impressed decor
9th-7th century BCEChinesePale olive-green glass
1st-2nd century CERomanLight gray stoneware with blackened surfaces, the decoration polished into the matte surface before firing
5th-3rd century BCEChineseSilver
18th centuryAmericanTerracotta
'Qingbai' ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over incised and carved decoration, the interior with appliqué containers, stylized sculpture, and leaf stems, the appliqué elements touched with iron-brown slip to add areas of localized color in firing. Probably from a kiln in Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
3rd millennium BCEMinoanQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseSalt glazed stoneware
20th centuryBritish, Welsh