18th century
10.16 x 6.03 cm (4 x 2 3/8 in.)
Mrs. Dorothy B. Austin, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1973.
Ceramic
ChineseSilver
18th centuryAmericanEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with ogival panels decorated with overglaze polychrome enamels, the panels reserved against an underglaze cobalt powder blue ground emblazoned with designs painted in overglaze gold enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChinesePorcelain with clear glaze
14th-16th centuryChinesePlaster
Terracotta
2nd millennium BCECypriotJizhou or Jizhou-type ware: white stoneware with clear glaze, the decoration incised and carved through the glaze before firing. Probably from the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province; possibly from the Linchuan kilns at Linchuan, Jiangxi province
13th centuryChineseEnamel on metal
16th centuryFrenchTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekSancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChineseAlabaster
Proto-Kaya ware; grayish buff earthenware with appliqué handles, cord-marked surfaces, and lightly carved decoration on the neck
1st-2nd century CEKorean