Jug; flat base, square body with impressed sides, applied wide ribbon handle. Intact; dark brown dirt accretions.
12.9 x 12 cm (5 1/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Charles Eliot Norton and Richard Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1895), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1895.
Porphyry; six-character mark in seal script on the base reading 'Da Qing Qianlongnian zhi'
18th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with clear glaze over molded decoration and stylized Chinese character "shou" (longevity) impressed into the flat floor; the rim banded with metal
17th-18th centuryChineseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta, brown-gray ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianSilver
17th-18th centuryBritishMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with black glaze
18th centuryChineseBronze
8th-5th century BCECypriotCeramic
19th centuryJapaneseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta with white slip
5th century BCEGreekBlue-green glass
Graeco-Roman