14th-15th century
H. 6.5 cm x Diam. 4.6 cm (2 9/16 x 1 13/16 in.)
Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, caramel-brown, and clear glazes over stamped decoration and with lead fluxed, pale yellow glaze on the feet. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChinesePale green glass
1st-2nd century CERomanTerracotta
GermanFritware painted with luster (copper and silver) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin
12th-13th centuryPersianStoneware with blue and white glaze
14th-15th centuryChineseJun-type ware: light gray stoneware with light blue glaze enlivened with bluish-purple splashes from copper filings; with incised signature reading "Minoru" on the unglazed base
20th centuryJapaneseTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved, incised, and combed decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseGilded metal
17th centuryDutchHarvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseRed earthenware with stamped decoration
7th-9th centuryChinese