20th century
Diam. 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.)
Alice and Caleb Warner, Cambridge, MA (by 1984), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1984.
Terracotta; buff clay and traces of purple and black glaze
6th centuryGreekEnameled ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze green and yellow enamels; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Tian" (Heaven) on the base
15th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze over incised, carved, and combed decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
13th centuryChineseGray stoneware
2nd-1st century BCEChinesePolychrome plaster
20th centuryMinoanTerracotta, black to brown buff-ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianTerracotta
8th century BCEGreekCold-painted funerary ware: dark gray earthenware with decoration cold-painted in variegated pigments
2nd-1st century BCEChineseSilver
18th-19th centuryBritishTerracotta
GreekSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchSilver gilt
17th centuryBritish