11th-early 12th century
H. 8.1 x Diam. 18.8 cm (3 3/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Shirley Nye (d. 2003), New York (by 1999), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999.
Red earthenware
2nd millennium BCEChinesePale green glass
4th-5th century CERomanJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchSilver
18th centuryBritishSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchBronze
ChineseSilver
7th-6th century BCEGreekLight gray stoneware with kiln-darkened surface and with localized areas of natural ash glaze, the natural glaze droplets now disintegrated and flaked away
11th-13th centuryKoreanTerracotta
5th century BCESouth ItalianHard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanTerracotta
Roman