12th cent. - 13th cent.
box and cover: H. 5.1 x Diam. 12.1 cm (2 x 4 3/4 in.)
Peter W. Scheinman purchased from Kaikodo, New York
Terracotta
GreekHard-paste decorated with polychrome overglaze
19th centuryGermanCeramic
PersianImitation Jun ware: porcelain with variegated purple glaze. Perhaps made at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.
18th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseHard-paste porcelain with monochrome enamel decoration
18th centuryGermanGray stoneware with combed, stamped, and openwork decoration. Reportedly recovered in Haep'yŏng-myŏn, Sŏnsan-gun, North Kyŏngsang province, in 1959.
5th centuryKoreanNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base; “Ying tai Lan shi yong” (Ocean Terrace, used in the Orchid Room) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseCeladon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze
12th centuryKoreanCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChineseCeramic
17th centuryJapanese