17th-19th century
2.54 x 11.43 x 8.57 cm (1 x 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.)
Mrs Arthur T. Cabot, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.
Terracotta, bucchero
Etruscan
Porcelain with underglaze copper red design
21st centuryJapaneseGilded silver
19th centuryEuropeanTerracotta; buff clay, black glaze, red and white paints
6th century BCEGreekHammered silver
12th-13th centuryChineseHard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanMonochrome-glazed ware: pale pink earthenware with (partially degraded) lead-fluxed, clear glaze over white slip ground on the exterior; the pale blue splashes applied over the glaze in the twentieth century, using blue ink or pigment; with lead-fluxed, yellow glaze on the interior
8th centuryChineseTerracotta
6th-5th century BCEEtruscanJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseGlass
20th centurySwedishGanzhou ware: light gray stoneware, the unglazed exterior with combed and applique decoration, the unglazed neck with beads of pearly white glaze to form the bosses, the interior with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Qili Ganzhou, Jiangxi province
13th-14th centuryChineseYue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over appliqué decoration
4th century CEChinese