H. 13 × Diam. 5.1 cm (5 1/8 × 2 in.)
Bronze
ChineseYue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.
10th centuryChineseEaHarvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over carved and incised decoration
12th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over decoration trailed in white slip
11th-12th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white slip ground. Probably from the Guantai kilns, near Handan, Hebei province.
12th centuryChinesePale greenish white nephrite
18th centuryChineseYue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze and overglaze decoration
4th century CEChineseGray earthenware
16th-15th century BCEChineseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseLacquer, black and red, with silver
ChineseWhite earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChinese