10th-8th century BCE
H. 17.9 x W. 15 x D. 12.3 cm (7 1/16 x 5 7/8 x 4 13/16 in.)
Private Collection (by 1944), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.
Alabaster
5th-4th century BCEGreekSilver
18th centuryBritishTerracotta
RomanTang/Five Dynasties white ware, possibly Xing ware: porcelain with clear glaze, the barbed rim knife-cut. Possibly from the Xing kilns, Hebei province.
9th-10th centuryChineseCeramic
16th centuryItalianPlaster
Silver
19th centuryAmericanNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze
10th-11th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze brown slip on a white slip ground, with details touched on the surface of the clear glaze in russet-brown slip and olive-green glaze in localized areas, the unglazed lowest portion finished with dark brown glaze
14th-17th centuryChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with clear glaze over applied powdered cobalt; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Qianlongnian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapanese