1st-mid 3rd century CE
7.5 x 2.2 x 1.1 cm (2 15/16 x 7/8 x 7/16 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).
Terracotta, gray-brown ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianCeramic
18th-19th centuryJapaneseImitation Wanli, "wucai" type ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
19th-20th centuryJapaneseBronze
ChineseElectrotype of gold original; repoussé
19th-20th centuryMycenaeanTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekKyō-yaki (Kyoto ware): buff earthenware with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels
JapaneseLight gray stoneware with incised and openwork decoration
5th-6th centuryKoreanBurnished gray earthenware
2nd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with overglaze sepia-enamel hallmark reading "Xu Hua Tang zhi" on the base
18th centuryChineseEarthenware
2nd-1st millennium BCEChinese