c. 2300-1500 BCE
Small hourglass-shaped jar with flared mouth, constricted waist, and flared lower half; with three strap handles attached from lip to base; thinly potted red earthenware with applique handles and traces of cinnabar. Qijia culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.
H. 9.4 x W. (across handles) 11 x Diam. 9 cm (3 11/16 x 4 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
[James Freeman, Kyoto, July 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChinesePearlware with transfer printed and luster decoration
19th centuryBritishHard-paste porcelain with underglaze and polychrome enamel decoration.
20th centuryGermanHard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanAsh-glazed ware: light gray stoneware with thin, intentionally applied, brownish-green, ash glaze over all-over ground of iron-brown slip. Reportedly recovered in North or South Chŏlla province, in 1959.
13th centuryKoreanEnameled biscuit porcelain: molded biscuit porcelain with decoration painted in aubergine enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double-circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChinesePunch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on the white-slip ground on the interior; the exterior with pale celadon glaze over decoration lightly brushed in white slip
16th centuryKoreanLeaded bronze
Unidentified centuryUnidentified cultureSilver
18th centuryBritishGlass
9th-10th century