3rd-1st century BCE
L. 13.5 x W. 9.8 x Thickness 0.3 cm (5 5/16 x 3 7/8 x 1/8 in.) Weight 254 g
[Yamanaka & Co., New York, October 21, 1929] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (1929-1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th-19th centuryChineseSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue on upper and lower sections, the central register with red, yellow, and aubergine enamels over incised decoration on biscuit porcelain
16th-17th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishSilver
18th centuryBritishNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze
10th-11th centuryChineseSlip-painted celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip
11th-13th centuryKoreanReddish earthenware covered in whitish slip and painted with red (iron), black (manganese), green (copper), and yellow (stain from fine chromite particles) under clear lead glaze
10th centuryPersianCoin silver
19th centuryAmericanSilver
18th centuryBritishEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseColorless glass
1st-2nd century CERoman