12th-13th century
12 x 18 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
White stoneware with clear glaze over molded decoration and stylized Chinese character "shou" (longevity) impressed into the flat floor; the rim banded with metal
17th-18th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the exterior with russet skin, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th 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 BCEChineseSilver
18th centuryAmericanEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseSilver
17th centuryBritishTerracotta with black paint
4th century BCESouth ItalianSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red enamel; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChineseEarthenware with cold painted pigmentEarthenware with cold painted pigment
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishTerracotta