first half 5th century BCE
7.3 x 9 cm (2 7/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
[Sotheby's New York Antiquities Auction, 1985], sold; to The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University (1985-2012), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012. Sotheby's New York, December 9, 1985, Sale 5398, Lot 267.
Silver
18th centuryBritishHard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseChangsha ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over white slip and underglaze decoration painted in iron-brown and copper-green pigments, the rim with touches of iron-brown. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.
9th centuryChineseBlack earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
RomanTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekSilver
18th-19th centuryFrenchTerracotta
5th century BCEGreek