Gift of the Estate of Theodore Dwight, through Harriet Amory, to the Department of the Classics, 1920. Transfer from the Department of the Classics, 1977.
Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. Recovered from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseAlabaster
16th-11th century BCEEgyptianEnameled biscuit porcelain: molded biscuit porcelain with decoration painted in aubergine enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double-circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChineseTerracotta
Terracotta; light buff to purple clay; matt reddish glaze
8th century BCEGreekEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoraiton painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Longqing nian zao" within a double circle on the base
16th centuryChineseFritware with molded relief decoration under blue (cobalt) transparent alkali glaze
12th centuryWhite earthenware with leadfluxed, cobaltsplashed glaze
8th centuryChineseJasperware
18th centuryBritishYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
11th centuryChinese