c. 420-390 BCE
Winged Eros to right holding a box. Hair outline reserved.
11 cm (4 5/16 in.)
Purchased in Athens, 1898.
Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with "anhua" decoration painted in white slip on the interior cavetto and with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" on the base
20th centuryChinese
Light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze over molded and applique elements
19th-20th centuryChineseSilver with gilt interior
18th centuryBritishTerracotta
4th century BCESouth ItalianGilt silver
17th centuryDutchEnamelled ware: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome and gold enamels
19th centuryChineseCast bronze with gray-green patina; with an inscription cast on both the vessel floor and lid interior
14th-11th century BCEChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChineseDing-type ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over molded decoration. Perhaps from kilns at Jiexu, Shanxi province.
12th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
15th-17th centuryChineseGray stoneware
2nd-1st century BCEChinese