2016
30.5 × 19.1 × 19.1 cm (12 × 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Sue and Bernie Pucker, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.
Gray earthenware
5th-3rd century BCEChineseSilver
4th century BCEAchaemenidNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin and purplish brown slip on the lower portion. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseTerracotta
19th centuryGreekSilver
18th centuryIrishEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseHard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels
18th centuryGermanTerracotta; buff slip, brown glaze
16th-15th century BCEHelladicCeramic
17th centuryGermanImitation Wanli, "wucai" type ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
19th-20th centuryJapaneseFritware with slip painting and sgraffito decoration under turquoise glaze (silhouette-ware)
12th-13th centuryPersianCarved rhinoceros horn
18th centuryChinese