Jug; tall, cylindrical body, flat ring neck, applied wide handle. Intact; heavy dirt accretions on one side of the outside and on interior.
23.5 x 9.9 cm (9 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.)
Charles Eliot Norton and Richard Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1895), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1895.
Earthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in black enamel over an overglaze yellow ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChineseTerracotta
4th century BCESouth ItalianTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red, green, yellow, and gold enamels; with cursorily written underglaze cobalt-blue mark possibly reading "Wan Fu Yu Tong" on the base
16th centuryChineseCast bronze with pale green patina
13th century BCEChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with dark brown glaze suffused with iridescent silvery flecks
19th centuryChineseTerracotta
GreekTerracotta
6th-5th century BCEEtruscanGray stoneware. Reportedly recovered near Hyŏnp'ung-myŏn, Talsŏng-gun, near Kyŏngju, North Kyŏngsang province in 1962.
6th-7th centuryKoreanFritware painted with luster (copper and silver) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin
13th century