late 18th–early 19th century
Mrs. Marjory Gane Harkness, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1937
Terracotta
6th century BCEGreekQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseBlack basalt with figures in relief
18th centuryBritishPale greenish white nephrite
18th centuryChineseSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchJizhou 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 kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the rim repaired with gold lacquer. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseTerracotta
4th century CEGreekNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base; “Ying tai Lan shi yong” (Ocean Terrace, used in the Orchid Room) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseCeramic
Chinese