c. 1760
21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Pfueger, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1967.
Terracotta
5th-4th century BCEGreekReddish earthenware covered in white slip and painted with black (manganese and iron), red (iron), and yellow-staining black (chromium) under clear lead glaze
10th centuryPersianEnameled porcelain: porcelain with emerald-green enamel over crackled glaze; the unglazed footring dressed with an iron-brown slip
18th-19th centuryChineseTerracotta
2nd millennium BCEHurrianRed lacquer
ChineseSilver, fruitwood
18th centuryBritishTerracotta
1st-2nd century CERomanTerracotta
GreekSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseHorn
17th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseYue ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.
10th-11th centuryChinese