1667-1668
Of bulbous circular form, the sides repoussé and chased with flowerheads and wrigglework with a running lion on one side and a unicorn on the other, with two cast caryatid-form scroll handles; the domed cover with conforming decoration and plain flat spool-form finial.
16.2 × 20.9 × 15.2 cm (6 3/8 × 8 1/4 × 6 in.) 697 g
Private Collector, London, sold [through Christie's, London, July 13, 1914, lot 84]. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949
Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with mark reading "Un Hyŏn" ("Cloud Hill") painted in underglaze cobalt blue on the base; the inscription perhaps is a reference to the palace in which the Prince Regent lived from 1864 to 1873. Made at the official kilns in Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province, perhaps in Punwŏn-ri.
19th centuryKoreanTerracotta
4th century BCESouth ItalianExport enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze blue, black, and gold enamels
20th centuryChineseTerracotta
6th century BCEEtruscanTerracotta, black ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseWhite nephrite
18th centuryChineseGlass
19th centuryGermanTerracotta
Horn
17th centuryChineseEarthenware with green lead glaze
11th-12th centuryChineseOnda ware, 'zogan' technique: light gray stoneware with pale olive glaze over brush-applied white slip on the interior and over white slip brushed over chatter marks on the exterior; with three- (or four-?) character stamp of the Onda kilns impressed on the base
21st centuryJapanese