8th-9th century
H. 16.3 x Diam. 17.3 cm (6 7/16 x 6 13/16 in.)
Philip Hofer (1988-1984), Cambridge, MA (by 1984), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1984.
Light gray stoneware with misfired (?) bluish glaze, now cloudy green glaze
14th-15th centuryChineseSalt-glazed stoneware
20th centuryBritish, WelshGray stoneware with incised, appliqué, and openwork decoration and with splashes of natural ash glaze
5th-6th centuryKoreanCeladon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze
12th centuryKoreanMetal
20th centuryGermanReddish buff stoneware with variegated light blue and purple glaze
20th centuryJapaneseSplashed Jun ware: off-white stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
13th-14th centuryChinesePainted lacquerware: brown and reddish orange lacquer over wooden core
3rd-1st century BCEChineseTerracotta
4th-7th centuryByzantineQingbai ware: porcelain with sky-blue glaze over mold-impressed decoration; the underglazed rims originally bound with metal. Probably from the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseDark and light gray nephrite; the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan
19th centuryChinese