1st-4th century CE
4.3 cm (1 11/16 in.)
The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University (before 1959-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.
Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the saggar fragments made of coarse reddish buff firing clay. Recovered from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseTurned bronze
9th centuryChineseGlass
9th-10th centuryJizhou-type ware, probably Tushan ware: light gray stoneware with variegated brown and amber glazes over a white slip ground, the lower portion of the bottle coated with dark russet slip. Probably from the kilns at Tushan, Sichuan province.
12th-14th centuryChineseTerracotta, brown ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianDing ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseBronze
4th century BCEEtruscanMonochrome glazed porcelain; porcelain with pale cobalt-blue glaze, the rim finished with an application of iron-brown slip simulating a metal band; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base
18th-19th centuryChineseStoneware and pewter
17th centuryGermanBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
6th century BCEGreek