late 18th–early 19th century
cup: 7 × 9.7 × 7 cm (2 3/4 × 3 13/16 × 2 3/4 in.) saucer: 3 × 14 cm (1 3/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Mrs. Marjory Gane Harkness, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1937
Terracotta
6th century BCEGreekMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with black glaze
18th-19th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with an all-over coating of overglaze yellow enamel, the design reserved in red enamel against the yellow ground, the details articulated in black enamel on the reserved designs; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base.
16th centuryChineseGlass
19th centuryAmerican?Cizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing to reveal the light gray body, the revealed body clay dressed with white glaze in localized areas
13th-14th centuryChineseJian ware: gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseInlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration inlaid in black and white slips. Reportedly recovered from a tomb on Kangwha Island, Kyŏnggi province.
13th centuryKoreanCeramic
15th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in black enamel over an overglaze yellow ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChineseTerracotta
2nd millennium BCEHurrianBronze
16th centuryGermanAlabaster