mid 7th-late 1st century BCE
6.4 x 2.8 x 2.6 cm (2 1/2 x 1 1/8 x 1 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).
Plaster
19th centuryItalianLeaded bronze
2nd-1st millennium BCENear EasternBronze
19th-20th centuryFrenchLead-glazed funerary ware: molded white earthenware with lead-fluxed, pale yellow glaze and with traces of overglaze cold-painted pigments
7th centuryChinese
Welded steel
20th centuryBritishBone
ChineseDehua ware (so-called "Blanc de Chine"): molded porcelain with ivory-hued glaze; with underglaze four-character seal mark impressed into the back
18th-19th centuryChineseBronze
ChineseLead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with much degraded lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze
1st-2nd century CEChineseBronze
19th centuryUnidentified cultureLeaded bronze
7th-1st century BCEEgyptianGlazed majolica
19th centuryItalian