Liangzhu culture, 3300-2000 BCE
H. 12.5 x Diam. 11.2 cm (4 15/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. Fritz W. Bilfinger, Zurich, Switzerland (by 1984), sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1984.
Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration, the interior with vertical ribs trailed in white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with ogival panels decorated with overglaze polychrome enamels, the panels reserved against an underglaze cobalt powder blue ground emblazoned with designs painted in overglaze gold enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseWhite ware: porcelain with light bluish glaze over molded decoration. From the kilns at Punwŏn-ri, Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province.
19th centuryKoreanTerracotta; fine reddish clay with greenish-black paint
5th century BCEGreekProto porcelain: stoneware with ash glaze
5th-4th century BCEChinesePewter
18th centuryBritishCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in light and dark brown slips on a white slip ground; with maker's mark reading 'Wang Jia Zao' (Made [by the] Wang Family) brushed in underglaze dark brown slip on the underside.
12th-13th centuryChineseElectrotype of gold original; repoussé
19th-20th centuryMycenaeanStoneware with splashes of wood ash glaze
9th-11th centuryKoreanNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze over carved ribs and appliqué handles
11th centuryChineseBuff earthenware with appliqué handles and tabs, with decoration painted in black slip, and with traces of natural ash glaze
2nd-1st millennium BCEChineseLongquan ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised, combed, and carved decoration
15th-17th centuryChinese