1774-1814
4.8 × 10.2 × 7.9 cm (1 7/8 × 4 × 3 1/8 in.)
Mrs. Edward P. Bliss, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1928
Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the designs reserved against a ground of overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Hongzhi nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
15th-16th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryAmericanBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekPale yellow clay, black paint
6th century BCEGreekTerracotta; grayish white clay with no slip
16th-12th century BCECypriotGreen Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseMetal
16th centuryItalianTerracotta, black ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
13th-14th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale, sky-blue glaze over molded decoration, the unglazed lip banded with silver. From the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
12th-13th centuryChinese