Jar; indented base, spherical body, short neck, flaring ring rim. Intact; opaque dirt accretions on interior, bands of opaque white around the mouth and along the sides.
6.1 x 6.3 cm (2 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Bettina Jane Kahnweiler, New York City, NY (by 1935), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1935.
Gray earthenware with openwork decoration and with traces of cold-painted red and white pigments
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3rd millennium BCEMesopotamianLacquer
19th centuryChinesePale blue glass
1st-2nd century CERomanBlack earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
1st century CERomanCarved rhinoceros horn
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12th centuryPersianHammered and turned Bronze
8th centuryChineseSilver
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15th centuryGerman