17th-19th century
2.22 x 7.94 x 6.35 cm (7/8 x 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Mrs Arthur T. Cabot, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.
Leaded brass
2nd-5th century CERomanCeramic
19th centuryAmericanEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChineseTerracotta
Hellenistic
Shigaraki ware: stoneware silica-filled body with uneven rust to grey colored glaze
20th centuryJapaneseTerracotta, brown to black ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianPorcelain with blue enamel and gilding
18th-19th centuryChineseQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseCizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing to reveal the light gray body, the revealed body clay dressed with white glaze in localized areas
13th-14th centuryChinese