2500-2000 BCE
Red-polished II black-topped ware
9 x 16 cm (3 9/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Penha Collection, Cyprus. Stuart Cary Welch, Warner, NH (by 1954), transfer; to the Edith I. Welch 2004 Trust (2008-2016), transfer; to The Welch Family Holdings, LLC, Thomas C. Welch, Manager, Cambridge, MA (2016-2023), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums. Note: Stuart Cary Welch (1928-2008). Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art at the Harvard Art Museums (1976-2008) and Special Consultant in charge of the department of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1979-1987.)
Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels
19th centuryChineseGreen glaze, gold neck and handle (neck possibly modern)
4th-1st century BCEHellenisticTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekCeramic
17th centuryJapaneseStoneware with incised decoration under celadon glaze
12th centuryKoreanSteel with gold overlay
19th centuryPersianUnglazed stoneware: light gray stoneware with incised and combed decoration. Reportedly recovered in Ch'ulp'o, near the Puan kilns, Puan-gun, North Chŏlla province.
13th centuryKoreanTerracotta
5th-4th century BCESouth ItalianSilverplate
20th centuryAmericanTerracotta
6th-5th century BCEGreekPunch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over stamped and incised decoration inlaid with white slip
15th centuryKorean