mid 12th-13th century
H. 13.4 x Diam. 18 cm (5 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Ex-coll: Robert M. Ferris, IV, Windsor, VT, 1978-1997 Sotheby's, London, 30 March 1978 Chinese sale, lot 154
Glass
2nd-4th century CERomanArita ware, early Kakiemon style: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels
17th centuryJapaneseOpaque blue glass with yellow decoration
5th-4th century BCEGreekTerracotta, gray ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianFritware painted in blue (cobalt) under clear alkali glaze
19th-20th centuryTerracotta; buff slip, black and purple glaze
6th century BCEGreek
Stoneware (for Rörstrand manufacture)
20th centurySwedishSilver
18th centuryBritishInlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration inlaid in black and white slips. Reportedly recovered in a village a few miles west or southwest of Kyŏngju, North Kyŏngsang province, in 1961.
13th centuryKoreanHard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels
18th-19th centuryGermanHard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels
18th-19th centuryGermanEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" below the lip
17th-19th centuryChinese