1774-1814
2.5 × 14.6 cm (1 × 5 3/4 in.)
Mrs. Edward P. Bliss, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1928
Terracotta
3rd-7th centurySasanianEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishReddish earthenware covered in whitish slip and painted with green (chromium) slip under clear lead glaze
10th centuryDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChinesePorcelain with an all-over coating of overglaze yellow enamel, the designs reserved in yellow against a red enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi"
16th centuryChinesePewter
18th centuryGermanTerracotta
3rd century BCESouth ItalianTerracota
4th-3rd millennium BCEMycenaeanYue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze and overglaze decoration
4th century CEChinese