300-400 CE
actual: 5.1 x 3.5 cm (2 x 1 3/8 in.)
Louise M. and George E. Bates, Camden, ME (by 1971-1992), gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1992.
Punch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over stamped decoration inlaid with white slip. Made in Sŏngju, North Kyŏngsang province, and reportedly recovered there.
15th centuryKoreanEarthenware with traces of cinnabar
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with splashes of transparent amber glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChineseEarthenware with impressed decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
6th-5th century BCEEtruscanTerracotta
Porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an overglaze red enamel ground, the pictorial elements articulated with black enamel, and the foliage covered with green enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChineseTerracotta
3rd-2nd century BCEGreekBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; the rim darked with underglaze iron-brown slip; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th centuryChineseGlass
1st-2nd century CERoman