17th-19th century
3.81 x 8.89 x 6.99 cm (1 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Mrs Arthur T. Cabot, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.
Stone
3rd millennium BCEEgyptianJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the saggar made of coarse reddish buff firing clay. Probably from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChinesePunch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration incised through the white-slip ground. Reportedly recovered on Cheju Island in winter 1962-1963.
15th centuryKoreanNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lower portion dressed with dark brown slip.
12th centuryChineseTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved and combed decoration, the interior coated with a thin layer of underglaze white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th centuryChineseBuff clay with dark brown painted decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEIranianSilver
18th centuryBritishTerracotta
1st century BCE-1st century CERomanTerracotta
7th-6th century BCELight gray stoneware with incised, combed, and openwork decoration and with traces of natural ash glaze
5th-6th centuryKorean