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.
Glass
20th centurySwedishAlabaster
EgyptianMetal
15th-16th centuryItalianBuncheong-style stoneware: light gray stoneware with decoration incised and carved (in sgraffito technique) through an all-over coating of white slip; with celadon glaze; with artist signature reading 김 (Kim) incised on the base
21st centuryKoreanNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the lip banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang, county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseEarthenware with overglaze painting
9th centuryGray earthenware
9th-7th century BCEChinesePale blue-green glass
1st-3rd century CERomanTerracotta; buff clay, brown glaze
7th century BCEGreekLacquer, black and red, with silver
ChineseSilver
18th-19th centuryFrench