20th century
Diam. 20.7 cm (8 1/8 in.)
Alice and Caleb Warner, Cambridge, MA (by 1984), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1984.
Pale blue glass
1st-3rd century CERomanBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Perhaps from the kilns at Punwŏn-ri, Kwangju, Kyŏnggi province.
19th centuryKoreanSilver
18th centuryBritishEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
5th millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekCoin silver
19th centuryAmericanGray stoneware with combed, stamped, and openwork decoration. Reportedly recovered in Haep'yŏng-myŏn, Sŏnsan-gun, North Kyŏngsang province, in 1959.
5th centuryKoreanBronze
8th-7th century BCEPhoenicianJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
11th-12th centuryChineseMetal
20th centuryGermanEnameled 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 centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue and purple glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChinese