3rd-4th century CE
7.6 x 5.2 cm (3 x 2 1/16 in.)
Louise M. and George E. Bates, Camden, ME (by 1971-1992), gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1992.
Gray earthenware with cold painted decoration
2nd-1st century BCEChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with milky blue glaze suffused with one lavender splash (from applied copper filings)
13th-14th centuryChineseExport blue-and-white ware, Arita ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue mark of a single Chinese character on the base
17th-18th centuryJapaneseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with coral-red overglaze enamel
18th-19th centuryChineseNickel silver and ebony
20th centuryGermanWood
ChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with carved vertical flutes under pale whitish gray glaze, the glaze over a coating of white slip applied to the full exterior and the upper portion of the interior. Probably made at the Cizhou kilns at Cixian, near Handan, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseReddish earthenware covered in white slip and painted with brownish black (chromium, iron, and manganese) and blue (cobalt) under clear alkali glaze
19th-20th centuryTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChineseRusset Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChinese