1730-1550 BCE
Ceramic juglet; button foot.
14.9 x 11.3 x 3.2 cm (5 7/8 x 4 7/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Richard Benenson, gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art, 1985.
Enameled ware: porcelain with incised decoration and with an even coating of overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Yongzheng nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
18th centuryChineseSancai ("three-color") ware; white earthenware with lead-fluxed clear, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze over molded decoration on the exterior
8th-9th centuryChineseSilver, fruitwood, ivory
18th centuryBritishJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
2nd millennium BCENear EasternTerracotta
GreekGray earthenware with cold painted pigments
2nd-1st century BCEChineseTerracotta
Terracotta
7th-6th century BCEBlue-and-white ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt-blue
15th centuryVietnameseYaozhou ware: medium gray stoneware coated all over with white slip, the decoration carved through the slip to reveal the underlying darker body, the exterior of the jar further covered with celadon glaze, the interior left unglazed; Made at Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province
10th centuryChinese