1908-1909
32.07 x 12.07 cm (12 5/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
The French Government, gift; to Harvard University, transfer; to Fogg Art Museum, 1910.
Earthenware with traces of slip-painted decoration
5th millennium BCEChineseMetal
19th centuryJapaneseSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseGray earthenware with cold painted pigment
1st-3rd century CEChineseWhite ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-white glaze (the glaze possibly over white slip)
8th-9th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion of the exterior dressed with black slip. From the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.
12th centuryChineseleaded brass
12th-13th centuryPersianCarved rhinoceros horn, with incised seal mark reading 'Sheng Fugong zuo' on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseEarthenware with lead fluxed glaze
6th-7th centuryChinese