c. 5000-4000 BCE
7.7 x 76 cm (3 1/16 x 29 15/16 in.)
Louise M. and George E. Bates, Camden, ME (by 1971-1992), gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1992.
Earthenware with brown lead glaze
1st-3rd century CEChinese
Stoneware
20th centurySwedishTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekTerracotta
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12th-13th centuryChineseFritware, black painted under turquoise glaze
12th-13th centurySyrianTerracotta
Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised decoration
11th-12th centuryChinesePainted Jizhou ware: off-white stoneware with decoration painted in iron-brown slip under a clear glaze. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
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3rd-2nd millennium BCECypriotGray stoneware
10th-7th century BCEChinese