17th-19th century
3.81 x 11.11 x 8.26 cm (1 1/2 x 4 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
Mrs Arthur T. Cabot, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.
Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide, the base with an incised inscription reading 'Gongyu'. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province, probably from those at Luhuaping or Chidun.
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
12th century BCEMycenaeanTerracotta
CypriotMetal and nautilus shell
20th centuryGermanTerracotta
GreekBlue faience
4th-1st century BCEHellenisticWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 6 (liu) inscribed inside the footring before firing
15th centuryChineseStone: greenish color with lighter inclusions
3rd-4th century CEGandharanTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekTerracotta, black to brown buff-ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianSilver
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