c. 1760
21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Pfueger, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1967.
Terracotta
7th century BCEItalo-CorinthianNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the russet markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBlack basalt with figures in relief
18th centuryBritishJizhou ware: light gray (or light grayish buff) stoneware with dark brown glaze suffused with buff markings. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseEnameled biscuit porcelain: molded biscuit porcelain with decoration painted in aubergine enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double-circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTranslucent grayish green jadeite with emerald green markings; stone of Burmise origin
18th-19th centuryChineseGlass
ItalianQingbai ware: porcelain with sky-blue glaze over mold-impressed decoration; the unglazed rims originally bound with metal. Probably from the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChinese