8th-9th century
maximum: H. 24.1 x Diam. (base) 24.7 cm (9 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)
Private Collection (by 1944), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.
Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze suffused with buff markings. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishTerracotta
4th-3rd century BCEGreekPale blue glass
1st-2nd century CERomanMetal
10th-11th centuryEgyptianTransparent emerald-green glass with red lead pigment on the surface
8th-12th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue hallmark reading "Yu" on the base
19th centuryChineseSilver
4th century BCEAchaemenidTerracotta
5th century BCEGreek