6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.)
Gift of Oric Bates to the Department of the Classics. Transfer from the Department of the Classics, 1977.
Earthenware with cold painted pigmentEarthenware with cold painted pigment
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip
12th-13th centuryChineseQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale bluish glaze, the unglazed rim originally bound with metal
12th-13th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue surrounded by a wide border of overglaze red enamel (probably added at a later date) and exterior decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels
16th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
15th centuryChineseCeramic
19th centuryRussianPunch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on the white-slip ground; the foot dressed with iron-brown slip
16th centuryKoreanPorcelain with blue enamel and gilding
18th-19th centuryChinese