12th century
5 x 20 cm (1 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, MA, (by 1979), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979.
Black earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta; reddish buff clay, brown glaze
8th century BCEGreekLight gray stoneware with misfired (?) bluish glaze, now cloudy green glaze
14th-15th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
15th-17th centuryChineseOnda ware: light gray stoneware with pale olive glaze over brush-applied white slip enlivened with chatter marks on the exterior
21st centuryJapaneseTerracotta
6th-5th century BCEEtruscanSilver, fruitwood, ivory
18th centuryBritishBlue-green glass
1st-2nd century CERomanTerracotta
5th-3rd century BCEEtruscan (?)Blue-green glazed faience
1st-2nd century CEEgyptianTerracotta; pale yellow clay with slip
7th-6th century BCEGreek