10.48 x 25.08 x 16.51 cm (4 1/8 x 9 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
Private Collection (by 1944), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.
Enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze yellow enamel
18th-19th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseNorthern Yue-type ware: light gray stoneware with olive-hued celadon glaze over relief and appliqué decoration, the glaze streaked with blue
6th-7th centuryChineseEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze yellow enamel; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Hongzhi nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
18th centuryChineseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseMonochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze coral-red enamel
18th centuryChineseEarthenware with applique and impressed decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseWhite jadeite with emerald green markings; the stone of Burmese origin
19th centuryChineseGray earthenware with openwork decoration and with traces of cold-painted red and white pigments
2nd-1st century BCEChineseEnameled 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 centuryChineseWood
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