c. 600-400 BCE
14.8 x 14.7 cm (5 13/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Market, Rome (by 1963), sold; to Richard Borden Freeman, Lexington, Kentucky (by 1963 - by 1986), gift; to Private Collection, Manchester, Vemont (by 1986-1992), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums.
Ceramic
18th centuryJapaneseCeramic
17th centuryGermanJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with misfired dark brown glaze and bluish white markings, the markings probably from an application of ash
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta; pale reddish clay with slip, black paint
5th century BCEGreekTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekSilver
18th centuryBritishGray earthenware with cold-painted decoration
2nd millennium BCEChinesePlain celadon ware: very light gray porcellaneous stoneware with lightly crazed celadon glaze
14th-15th centuryKoreanLead-glazed ware: light gray earthenware with incised decoration under emerald green, lead-fluxed glaze. Reportedly recovered in Ch'angnyŏng, South Kyŏngsang province.
8th-9th centuryKoreanYue ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.
10th-11th centuryChineseGray earthenware
5th-3rd century BCEChinese