17th-19th century
3.81 x 10.48 x 7.94 cm (1 1/2 x 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
Mrs Arthur T. Cabot, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.
Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchMonochrome ware: porcelain with cobalt blue glaze; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing Nian Zhi" within the hollow stem
16th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
18th centuryChineseTemmoku-type ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze streaked with yellow overglaze, the foot and base with medium brown skin; with incised signature reading "Moriyasu saku" on the base
20th centuryJapaneseTerracotta; black gloss and added red paint
5th century BCEGreekSilver
18th-19th centuryBritishMarble
3rd millennium BCECycladicTerracotta
7th century BCEGreekCeramic earthenware
19th centuryDutchJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with splashes of transparent amber glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChinese