17th-19th century
2.22 x 9.53 x 7.3 cm (7/8 x 3 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.)
Mrs Arthur T. Cabot, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.
Enamel on metal
16th centuryFrenchChangsha ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over white slip and underglaze decoration painted in iron-brown and copper-green pigments, the rim with touches of iron-brown. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.
9th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Dongnuan ge louxia yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the East Heated Chamber, main floor) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChinesePunch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white-slip ground
16th centuryKoreanGilt silver
16th centuryGermanSilver
19th centuryBritishTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekSilver, traces of gilding
17th centuryBritishExport blue-and-white ware, kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
16th-17th centuryChineseSilver, fruitwood
18th centuryBritish