H. 19.7 × W. 17.9 cm (7 3/4 × 7 1/16 in.)
Private Collection (by 1944), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.
Earthenware with incised decoration
5th millennium BCEChineseCeramic
ChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChineseEnameled ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze green and yellow enamels; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Tian" (Heaven) on the base
15th centuryChineseQianlong-style molded porcelain: porcelain with molded decoration under very pale blue qingbai-type glaze
18th-19th centuryChineseEarthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze
8th centuryChineseStoneware with blue glaze; with three spur marks in the center
14th-17th centuryChineseBronze
ChineseBronze
ChineseMonochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze butterscotch-yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle beneath an overglaze turquoise blue enamel on the base
19th centuryChineseProto porcelain: stoneware with ash glaze
5th-4th century BCEChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration carved in the thick coating of underglaze white slip
14th centuryChinese