12th-13th century
max.: H. 2.4 × Diam. 11.6 cm (15/16 × 4 9/16 in.) foot: Diam. 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane, Brookline, MA (by 1942), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942.
Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in red enamel on an overglaze yellow enamel ground, the interior with two pairs of underglaze cobalt-blue bowstring lines; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChineseRock crystal
18th-19th centuryChineseSilver plate
20th centuryAmericanGlass
ChineseTinned copper
16th-17th centuryPersianBlack Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings painted in overglaze iron oxide. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChineseLight brown glass
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15th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChinesePale greenish white nephrite
18th centuryChineseSilver
19th centuryAmericanEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChinese