mid 5th-3rd century BCE
8.3 x 5 cm (3 1/4 x 1 15/16 in.)
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Ceramic
19th centuryJapaneseBronze, leaded bronze handle
5th century BCEEtruscanPale blue glazed faience
1st-2nd century CERomanSilver
19th centuryBritishAlabaster
16th-11th century BCEEgyptianEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
11th centuryChineseStoneware with lead fluxed glaze
6th-7th centuryChineseMonochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChinese