475 BCE - 221 BCE
2.8 x 9.3 x 7.5 cm (1 1/8 x 3 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
[Yamanaka & Co., New York, by 1930] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1930-1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Silver
17th centuryBritishDongkhe ware: molded light gray stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over white slip
18th-19th centuryChineseStoneware
20th centuryBritish, EnglishSteatite or chlorite
3rd millennium BCEMesopotamianTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekCreamware with enamel decoration
18th centuryEnglishBlue-green glass
1st-2nd century CERomanHammered brass, incised and inlaid with silver (now mostly lost)
14th centuryPersianGlass
2nd-4th century CERomanCeramic
19th centuryRussianTerracotta
RomanDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChinese