618 - 907
H. 9 x Diam. 19.2 cm (3 9/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, July 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
Monochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with clear glaze over applied powdered cobalt and with traces of overglaze gold enamel decoration; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle on the base
18th centuryChineseTerracotta, black ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianSplashed Jun ware: coarse gray stoneware with light blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusion from copper filings
13th-14th centuryChineseCopper alloy
5th century BCEGreekSilver
18th centuryAmericanFritware molded relief decoration under turquoise glaze
12th centuryPersianSilver
18th-19th centuryFrenchPale blue glass
RomanGrayish brown agate with brown mottles
19th centuryChineseTerracotta
2nd-3rd century CERomanEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue hallmark reading "Shendetang zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th centuryChineseCup made from five hundred silver dollars
19th centuryCuban