mid 5th-3rd century BCE
8.3 x 5 cm (3 1/4 x 1 15/16 in.)
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Probably Cizhou ware: off-white stoneware with brown-slip splashes on a white-slip ground
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
4th century CEGreekSilver
17th centuryBritishRock crystal
18th-19th centuryChineseFritware, black painted under turquoise glaze (some modern over paint inside)
12th-13th centurySyrianEarthenware with traces of cinnabar
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseGreen Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze
12th-13th centuryChinesePale greenish white nephrite
18th centuryChineseTerracotta, black ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianGrayish green nephrite
18th-19th centuryChineseTinned copper
17th centuryPersianEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels
19th centuryChinese