1st-2nd century CE
Unguentarium; round base, piriform body, slight constriction before long, straight neck, flaring lip. Intact; iridescent patches on the interior and exterior, large patch of dirt accretion on rim. Classificaton: Isings form 8
H. 11.4 x Rim diam. 2.3 x W. 2 cm (4 1/2 x 15/16 x 3/4 in.)
Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were the daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Gray earthenware
4th century BCEChinesePunch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on the white-slip ground. Made near Kongju, at the foot of Mount Kyeryong, South Ch'ungch'ŏng province.
16th centuryKoreanBurnished black stoneware
8th-9th centuryChineseNickel silver and ebony
20th centuryGermanCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseStoneware with celadon glaze
6th centuryChinesePorcelain with incised and carved elements, decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and copper red, and celadon glaze in localized areas
19th centuryChineseHakeme type: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over brush-applied white slip, the slip encouraged to run to create patterns, with artist’s mark impressed on the base
21st centuryJapaneseTerracotta, painted
2nd century BCE-1st century CEHellenistic or Early RomanCast bronze with inlays of turquoise, sheet gold and silver, and copper wire
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseTerracotta
GreekStone
2nd-1st millennium BCEIranian