Gift of the Estate of Theodore Dwight, through Harriet Amory, to the Department of the Classics, 1920. Transfer from the Department of the Classics, 1977.
Bronze
19th centuryAmericanTerracotta
RomanLeaded bronze
5th century BCEGreekFine grained, very dark gray phyllite; from Northern Bengal
12th centuryIndianTerracotta
4th-2nd century BCEGreekMarble
1st century BCE-1st century CERomanHard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanCopper
2nd millennium BCENear EasternCast bronze (with much deteriorated lacquer coating and gilding). Sino-Tibetan style.
16th-17th centuryChinesePlaster
19th centuryItalianCopper
3rd millennium BCENeo-SumerianDehua ware (so-called "Blanc de Chine"): molded porcelain with applique elements under ivory-hued glaze and attached horse hair (simulating the figure's beard); with spurious impressed seal mark reading "Zhang Shou Shan" on the back
19th-20th centuryChinese