c. 1690
13 x 23.5 x 14.3 cm (5 1/8 x 9 1/4 x 5 5/8 in.) 6548.62 g
Reverend Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard College 1737-1769 (1689-1769); Charlotte A. Hedge (Great-great-granddaughter of President Edward Holyoke); her gift to Harvard College, 1903.
Sancai ("three color") ware: pinkish white earthenware with lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splahed clear glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior, the (slightly degraded) glazes over a white-slip ground
8th centuryChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseEnamel on copper
16th centuryFrenchPlaster
Silver
18th-19th centuryBritishPunch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration incised through the white-slip ground. Reportedly recovered on Cheju Island in winter 1962-1963.
15th centuryKoreanIncised celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration
12th centuryKoreanGlass
9th-10th centuryCeramic
20th centuryPersianVery pale blue glass
1st-3rd century CERomanTerracotta; buff slip, brown glaze
7th century BCEGreek