15th century
39.37 cm (15 1/2 in.)
Denman Waldo Ross, gift; to Hervey E. Wetzel (1888-1919), Boston, December 1916, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1919.
Ceramic
PersianTemmoku-type ware; light gray stoneware with wax-resist decoration, the glazed areas with black glaze covered with iron-brown slip glaze
20th centuryJapaneseLight gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip
17th centuryKoreanCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the russet markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with incised, combed, stamped, and openwork decoration and with localized areas of natural ash glaze
5th-6th centuryKoreanPlaster
Punch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over incised decoration inlaid in black and white slips
15th centuryKoreanTerracotta
1st century CERomanMetal
20th centuryGermanTerracotta, bucchero sottile
7th century BCEEtruscanCast bronze
Chinese