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.
Ceramic
17th centuryGermanJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseUnderfired Black Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with brownish green, tea-dust-like glaze. Probably from the kilns at Jianci village, possibly from those at East or West Yanchuan village, Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
15th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseCeramic
18th centuryDutchJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the rim banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
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17th-19th centuryChinese