c. 1350
117.7 x 37.2 x 24 cm (46 5/16 x 14 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
[Demotte, Inc., New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
Gessoed and polychromed wood
16th centuryItalianLead
6th-5th century BCEGreekMing "sancai" (three-color) ware: molded brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald green, black, and clear glazes over white slip, the flesh portions with golden lacquer over the glaze
14th-17th centuryChineseMarble
19th-20th centuryAmericanHigh relief with polychrome
8th-10th centuryCentral AsianPlaster
19th centuryItalianPlaster
19th centuryItalianBrown-surfaced iron or steel with applique gold eyes and tongue; with incised inscription beneath the snake's jaw
19th-20th centuryJapaneseWood
EgyptianSancai ("three-color") ware: molded white earthenware with variegated, lead-fluxed clear, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
9th centuryChinesePlaster
20th centuryGermanEarthenware, traces of pigment
18th-19th centuryTibetan