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.
Sterling silver
20th centuryAmericanTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekFritware
12th-13th centuryPersianCeramic
ChineseInlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with dark (oxidized) celadon glaze over decoration inlaid in black and white slips. Reportedly recovered from a tomb in Yangp'yŏng, Kyŏnggi province, in 1962.
14th centuryKoreanSlip-painted celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip. Reportedly recovered from a tomb in Yŏnggwang county, South Chŏlla province.
13th centuryKoreanBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with mark reading "Un Hyŏn" ("Cloud Hill") painted in underglaze cobalt blue on the base; the inscription perhaps is a reference to the palace in which the Prince Regent lived from 1864 to 1873. Made at the official kilns in Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province, perhaps in Punwŏn-ri.
19th centuryKoreanBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with overglaze sepia-enamel hallmark reading "Xu Hua Tang zhi" on the base
18th centuryChineseMedium gray earthenware with decoration applied with a cord-wrapped paddle; with impressed seal at shoulder
8th-5th century BCEChineseStoneware with celadon glaze
5th-6th centuryChineseEarthenware with brown lead glaze
1st-3rd century CEChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChinese