1st-2nd century CE
13.7 x 3.1 cm (5 3/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
Charles Dikran Kelekian, New York, (by 1978), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1978.
Light gray stoneware with pitted, grayish white glaze
17th centuryJapaneseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Probably from a kiln at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.
15th centuryChineseCast bronze
ChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
4th century BCESouth ItalianGreen Jun ware: light gray stoneware with thick celadon glaze
13th-14th centuryChineseGray earthenware with cord-impressed decoration
10th-8th century BCEChineseYaozhou ware: medium gray stoneware coated all over with white slip, the decoration carved through the slip to reveal the underlying darker body, the exterior of the jar further covered with celadon glaze, the interior left unglazed; Made at Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province
10th centuryChineseYellow-brown glass
Graeco-RomanMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with copper red glaze
18th-19th centuryChinesePale blue-green glass
1st-2nd century CERoman