3rd century BCE-3rd century CE
3.9 x 3 x 1.6 cm (1 9/16 x 1 3/16 x 5/8 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).
'Sancai' ("three-color") ware: molded off-white earthenware with variegated, lead-fluxed glaze and with traces of cold-painted pigments
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20th centuryAmericanTerracotta
Gray limestone
16th-17th centuryChineseMolded medium gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments over white ground (the drum made separately from the stand on which it rests)
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16th centuryItalianTerracotta
Stone
Brass
Unidentified centuryUnidentified cultureWood
19th-20th centuryGerman?Limestone
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