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).
Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
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19th centuryChineseTerracotta
7th centuryByzantineCast bronze with dark green, speckled patina; with a 12-character dedication inscribed on both the vessel floor and lid interior
9th century BCEChineseMetal
15th-16th centuryItalianBrown-glazed ware of Yue type: light gray stoneware with mottled medium brown glaze. Probably from the Deqing or Yuhang kilns, Zhejiang province.
4th-5th century CEChineseTerracotta
GreekTerracotta
6th-5th century BCEGreekStoneware with celadon glaze
6th-7th centuryChineseNorthern Yue-type ware: light gray stoneware with olive-hued celadon glaze over relief and appliqué decoration, the glaze streaked with blue
6th-7th centuryChineseCeramic
19th centuryRussianGreen glass
1st-3rd century CERoman