8th-12th century
H. 4.5 x Diam. 3.5 cm (1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
[Yamanaka & Co., New York, 12/31/1941] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (1941-1943), bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 1943.
Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels
16th-17th centuryChineseSilver
16th-17th centuryBritishLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze over incised, carved, and combed decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
13th centuryChinese
Porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, green, black, and gold enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Ta Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
19th-20th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised and carved decoration
11th-12th centuryChineseSilver-gilt
17th centuryBritishNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseBuff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
3rd millennium BCEChineseDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over mold-impressed decoration, the unglazed rim bound with metal. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
12th-13th centuryChineseHard-paste porcelain with monochrome enamel decoration
18th centuryGermanSlip-painted black ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration painted in white slip on a black slip ground. Reportedly recovered on Cheju Island.
12th centuryKorean