Private Collection (by 1944), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.
Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseCeramic
ChineseEarthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with traces of painted decor
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseHorn
17th centuryChineseCast bronze with pale green patina
13th century BCEChineseOff-white stoneware with emerald-green enamel over white slip
18th-19th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the glaze with kiln transmutations. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseEarthenware with cord impressed decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChinesePorcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with gold enamel painted on a red enamel ground added to the exterior at a later date; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" within a single circle on the base.
16th-17th centuryChineseGray earthenware with cord-impressed decoration
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