10.8 × 16.8 cm (4 1/4 × 6 5/8 in.)
James Loeb, Murnau, Germany (by 1910) gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1910.
Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze, the unglazed areas with rust-brown skin. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
12th centuryChinesePlain celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze
12th centuryKoreanTerracotta
Graeco-RomanEarthenware
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseBronze
8th centuryJapaneseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekSilver
18th centuryBritishPlain celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised bowstring-line border
11th centuryKorean