17th century
6 x 35 cm (2 3/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
Annie Swan Coburn, Chicago, (by 1932), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934.
Plaster
Punch'ŏng ware with incised decoration over brushed white slip
15th centuryKoreanSilver
18th centuryBritishEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChineseTerracotta with glossy black paint
4th century BCEGreekSancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed clear, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChineseTerracotta
CypriotMetal
20th centuryGermanTerracotta
3rd-7th centurySasanianBuff clay with dark brown painted decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEIranian
White earthenware with ivory, blue, green and black glazes
20th centurySpanishCizhou ware: buff to light-gray stoneware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze, now much degraded.
12th centuryChinese