1st-3rd century CE
Candlestick unguentarium; slightly indented base, bell-shaped body, long, straight neck, wide and flat double-ring mouth. Intact; pale, light yellow opalescent iridescence, some spots of dirt on exterior and interior. Classification: Isings form 82A(2)
19.1 x 11.9 (base diam.) cm (7 1/2 x 4 11/16 in.)
Dr. Harris Kennedy, Milton, MA (by 1932), gift; to the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, 1932.
Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, with relief plub blossoms touched on in white slip and embellished with pale celadon glaze, the background with overglaze yellow enamel; with spurious mark underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
19th centuryJapaneseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseCizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze over white slip, the decoration incised into the glaze before firing to reveal the white slip. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.
16th centuryChineseTerracotta
Arita ware, early Kakiemon style: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels
17th centuryJapanesePale olive-green glass
1st-2nd century CERomanJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
11th-12th centuryChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with black glaze
19th centuryChineseHard-paste porcelain with monochrome enamel decoration
18th centuryGermanHard-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanYellow-brown glass
Graeco-Roman