17th-18th century
4.45 x 20.32 cm (1 3/4 x 8 in.)
Cizhou-type ware: earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseCloudy, grayish white nephrite
16th-17th centuryChineseTerracotta
RomanTerracotta
7th century BCEGreekTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with incised and carved decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
15th-16th centuryChineseTerracotta
4th-3rd century BCEGreekNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Ziqiang buxi yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Room of Unceasing Self-Improvement) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseMetal
20th centuryGermanTerracotta, brown to gray ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianEtching fired onto ceramic plate, then colored, glazed, and refired
19th centuryFrenchAlabaster
3rd millennium BCEEgyptian