8th-9th century
6.7 x 6.9 cm (2 5/8 x 2 11/16 in.)
Shirley Nye, New York, NY, gift to HUAM
Gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments
2nd-1st century BCEChineseFritware
14th centuryPersianTerracotta
Mixed copper alloy
18th-20th centuryUnidentified cultureSancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChineseTerracotta, white slip on body
5th-4th century BCEItalicEnameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze yellow enamel
19th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing; "Jianfu gong Sanyou xuan yong" (Palace of Established Happiness, used in the Veranda of Three Friends) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with ogival panels decorated with overglaze polychrome enamels, the panels reserved against an underglaze cobalt powder blue ground emblazoned with designs painted in overglaze gold enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChinesePorcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, yellow, green, and black enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChineseCloisonné enamel
18th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with misfired (?) bluish glaze, now cloudy green glaze
14th-15th centuryChinese