475 BCE - 221 BCE
2.8 x 9.3 x 7.5 cm (1 1/8 x 3 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
[Yamanaka & Co., New York, by 1930] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1930-1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Hard-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanSilver
19th centuryFrenchCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseIga ware: grayish-white stoneware partially covered with a transparent green ash glaze
18th-19th centuryJapaneseDong Khe ware: molded light gray stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over white slip
18th-19th centuryChineseLeaded bronze
6th century BCEGreekSilver
20th centuryDanishEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-2nd century CEChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with emerald-green enamel over crackled glaze
18th-19th centuryChineseChangsha ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over white slip and underglaze decoration painted in iron-brown and copper-green pigments, the rim with touches of iron-brown. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.
9th centuryChinese
Jun-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 centuryJapaneseGray earthenware
11th-10th century BCEChinese