c. 1786
Black basaltes with figures of putti in relief; engine turned decoration inside and out. Silvered copper band with toothed edge set into rim.
4.6 cm x 19.7 cm diam. (1 13/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
[Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
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12th centuryChinesePunch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white-slip ground
16th centuryKoreanCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseJizhou ware: ivory white stoneware with decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze, the reserved designs covered with clear glaze over slip-painted details. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChinese