Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art

3rd-2nd millennium BCEChinese

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Cylindrical Container with Lid, of "Ziwiye" Type

Unknown Artist, c. 800-700 BCE

Faience, with turquoise and yellow glaze

8th century BCEIranian

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SMALL PITCHER WITH TRACES OF POOR BLACK VARNISH

Unknown Artist

Terracotta

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Oil flask (aryballos) with the heads of a Black African and an Egyptian

Unknown Artist, 6th century

Faience

6th century BCEGreek

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Black-glaze Trefoil Oinochoe

Unknown Artist, early 5th century BCE

Terracotta

5th centuryGreek

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Cup and Saucer from a Tea service for the American or European market

Unknown Artist, late 18th–early 19th century

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding

18th-19th centuryChinese

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Globular Vessel with Bail Handle

Unknown Artist

Bronze

Chinese

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Small "Meiping" Bottle with Apple-Green Glaze

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with emerald-green enamel over crackled glaze; the unglazed footring dressed with an iron-brown slip

18th-19th centuryChinese

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Circular Basin with Drum-Nail Decor and Three Cloud Scroll Feet

Unknown Artist, probably 15th century

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing

15th centuryChinese

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Compressed Globular Jar with Two Loop Handles, Short Neck, Everted Lip, and with Geometric Decor

Unknown Artist, Majiayao cutlure, Banshan phase, 2650 BCE - 2350 BCE

Buff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.

3rd millennium BCEChinese

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Bowl with Bird in Center and Radiating Palmettes

Unknown Artist, 13th century

Fritware

13th centuryPersian