c. 1550
sight: 7.3 x 7.6 cm (2 7/8 x 3 in.)
Mrs. Jessie Isidor Straus, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957
Enamelled ware: porcelain with yellow and green enamels applied on the biscuit over incised decoration, the interior and base with clear glaze; underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Zhengde nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th centuryChineseBlue-green glass
4th-5th century CERomanTerracotta
GreekCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChinesePale green glass
1st-4th century CERomanCast bronze
ChineseChangsha ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over white slip and underglaze decoration painted in iron-brown and copper-green pigments, the rim with touches of iron-brown. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.
9th centuryChineseTerracotta
2nd century CERomanOff-white stoneware with emerald-green enamel over white slip
18th-19th centuryChineseQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip, the rim dressed with white slip under clear glaze, the base and unglazed lower portion with a brush-written inscription reading "Wei Han Han / Wei / Wei"
12th-13th centuryChinese