c. 420-390 BCE
Winged Eros to right holding a box. Hair outline reserved.
11 cm (4 5/16 in.)
Purchased in Athens, 1898.
Silver
19th centuryFrenchWhite ware: porcelain with glaze over lightly incised decoration
18th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseMonochrome blue ware: porcelain with cobalt blue glaze; with incised mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within an incised double circle, all beneath a cobalt-blue glaze on the base
16th centuryChineseTerracotta
8th-6th century BCENear EasternBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base
19th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
16th-17th centuryChineseTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekCeramic
17th centuryJapaneseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekTerracotta
2nd millennium BCENear EasternTerracotta; grayish buff clay, brown glaze
6th century BCEGreek