late 19th century
Imitating Tarentine rhyta of the 4th-3rd centuries BCE
11.91 x 17.15 cm (4 11/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Viscount Allenby; Frederick M. Watkins; Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1959.
Terracotta; buff slip, black and red paint
6th century BCEGreekAsh-glazed ware: light gray stoneware with thin, intentionally applied, brownish-green, ash glaze over all-over ground of iron-brown slip. Reportedly recovered near Suwŏn, Kyŏnggi province.
8th-11th centuryKoreanNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion dressed with dark purplish brown slip. Probably from the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.
12th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
13th-14th centuryChinese
Ceramic
20th centuryAmericanTerracotta; pale reddish clay with slip, black paint
5th century BCEGreekExport blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
18th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseTerracotta, brown to gray ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianSilver with parcel gilding and with inlaid black stone
4th-3rd century BCEChineseWhite painted zinc sheet metal with glass liner
20th centuryAustrian