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).
White stoneware with clear glaze over molded decoration and stylized Chinese character "shou" (longevity) impressed into the flat floor; the rim banded with metal
17th-18th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with splashes of transparent amber glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChineseGray stoneware with stamped and incised decoration. Reportedly recovered in Hyŏnp'ung-myŏn, Talsŏng-gun, near Kyŏngju, North Kyŏngsang province, in 1960.
7th-8th centuryKoreanEnamel
20th centuryAustrianYue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.
10th centuryChineseCeramic
20th centuryGermanHorn
17th centuryChineseMottled buff and olive-green nephrite, dimly translucent at the edges
3rd century BCE-1st century CEChineseCeramic
15th centurySyrianGray earthenware with incised decoration
2nd-3rd century CEChineseBuff-colored earthenware covered in pinkish slip and painted with black (manganese and iron), red (iron), yellow (lead-tin), and green (copper) under clear lead glaze
10th century