1774-1814
2.9 × 13.7 cm (1 1/8 × 5 3/8 in.)
Mrs. Edward P. Bliss, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1928
Jian ware: gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseStone
2nd-1st millennium BCEIranianGilt silver
16th centuryGermanMetal
18th-19th centuryEuropeanCeramic
17th-18th centuryPersianEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red enamel; with overglaze red enamel mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th centuryChineseTerracotta
GreekKaya-type ware: gray stoneware with combed and openwork decoration and with considerable natural ash glaze. Reportedly recovered from the Tomb of the Generals in Yangji-ri, Hyŏnp'ung-myŏn, Talsŏng-gun, near Kyŏngju, North Kyŏngsang province in 1960.
6th centuryKoreanDark green nephrite with black inclusions (so-called spinach-green jade); with spurious mark reading 'Qianlongnian zhi' in seal-script characters
19th centuryChineseWood
Chinese