1774-1814
2.9 × 13.3 cm (1 1/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
Mrs. Edward P. Bliss, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1928
Pale blue-green glass
1st century CERomanTerracotta
5th-4th century BCESouth ItalianGrayish buff earthenware
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
8th century BCEGreekCoin silver
19th centuryAmericanPolychrome plaster
20th centuryMinoanEnameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with carved vertical flutes under pale whitish gray glaze, the glaze over a coating of white slip applied to the full exterior and the upper portion of the interior. Probably made at the Cizhou kilns at Cixian, near Handan, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseDing ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the unglazed rim originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns in Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
13th centuryChineseCeramic
19th centuryJapanese