6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Monochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with lightly variegated copper red glaze on the interior and very pale celadon glaze on the interior and base; with 19th-early 20th century carved and assembled wood cover with tourmaline knob
18th-19th centuryChineseSilver
19th centuryIslamicBronze
16th centuryGermanSancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed clear glaze mottled with cobalt blue
8th centuryChineseLeaded bronze
6th century BCEGreekBlue-and-white ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt-blue
15th centuryVietnameseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChinesePunch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over stamped decoration inlaid with white slip
15th centuryKoreanQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip
12th-13th centuryChineseSilver
17th centuryBritishCeramic
17th centuryJapaneseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base; “Ying tai Lan shi yong” (Ocean Terrace, used in the Orchid Room) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChinese