1st century BCE
20.7 x 37.8 x 35.4 cm (8 1/8 x 14 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Excavated from Grave 115 by Oric Bates and Dows Dunham at Gammai, Sudan (1915-1916). Natica Bates, Groton, MA (by 1924), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1924.
Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamels added at a later date; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with carved and molded decoration, the bats painted in underglaze cobalt blue
19th centuryKoreanFritware
13th centuryPersianLight gray stoneware with combed decoration
5th-6th centuryKoreanTerracotta
Cypriot?Unglazed marbled ware: white, light gray, and dark brown laminated clays
12th centuryKoreanCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseWhite earthenware with leadfluxed, cobaltsplashed glaze
8th centuryChineseEarthenware with green lead glaze
10th-12th centuryChineseGray earthenware with cold-painted pigment
3rd-1st century BCEChineseHuangdao ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze with variegated light blue suffusions
8th-9th centuryChineseCeramic
20th centuryDanish