c. 900 CE-c. 1300
9.5 × 14.9 cm (3 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Goodman, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962
Reddish earthenware covered in white slip and painted with brownish black (chromium, iron, and manganese) and blue (cobalt) under clear alkali glaze
19th-20th centuryPorcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamel designs and yellow enamel ground added at a later date; with spurious overglaze black enamel mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base, the mark and double circle also covered in yellow enamel
16th-17th centuryChineseTerracotta
5th centuryGreekTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Ziqiang buxi yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Room of Unceasing Self-Improvement) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseGrayish white jadeite with emerald green markings
18th-19th centuryChinese
Nickel silver and ebony
20th centuryGermanStoneware with celadon glaze
6th centuryChineseTerracotta
2nd millennium BCEHurrianTerracotta; buff clay, brown and reddish glaze
7th century BCEGreek
Porcelain
20th centuryAmerican