19th century
12.4 x 5.1 cm (4 7/8 x 2 in.)
Acquired by Williams Hayes Fogg; his bequest to his wife, 1884; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.
Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze polychrome enamels
19th-20th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishMetal
20th centuryGermanReddish earthenware covered in white slip and painted with black (manganese and iron) under clear lead glaze
10th centuryQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised, carved, and roulette-wheel impressed decoration
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
3rd millennium BCECypriotChangsha ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over white slip and underglaze decoration painted in iron-brown and copper-green pigments, the rim with touches of iron-brown. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.
9th centuryChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekSilver
18th centuryBritish, ScottishJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseTerracotta
Greek