12th-13th century
This bowl is an ingeniously constructed pastiche that has been skillfully put together from fragments of six different vessels.
9.7 x 22.3 cm (3 13/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood, Belmont, MA (by 1973-2002), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2002.
Gray earthenware with traces of cold-painted pigments
3rd-1st century BCEChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red enamel; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuandenian zhi" on the floor
17th-19th centuryChineseTerracotta
7th century BCEGreekTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware glazed in hues of greenish tea-dust with blue undertones, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-brown slip
12th-13th centuryChineseVery pale blue glass
1st-2nd century CERomanPolychrome plaster
GreekTerracotta, cream-colored clay decorated in black shading to brown
8th century BCEGreekBuff-colored earthenware with patches of green (copper) running in clear lead glaze
9th centuryMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with dark brown glaze suffused with iridescent silvery flecks
19th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware, the jar and cover with kiln-darkened surfaces, the jar also with localized areas of natural ash glaze, the natural glaze droplets now disintegrated and flaked away
5th-6th centuryKoreanBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with mark reading "Un Hyŏn" ("Cloud Hill") painted in underglaze cobalt blue on the base; the inscription perhaps is a reference to the palace in which the Prince Regent lived from 1864 to 1873. Made at the official kilns in Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province, perhaps in Punwŏn-ri.
19th centuryKorean