800-600 BCE
Leaded copper
7th century BCEGreekHard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanMarble
19th centuryAmericanGilt bronze
TibetanCold-painted funerary ware: molded medium gray earthenware with traces of cold-painted pigments
2nd century BCEChineseGilt bronze; assembled from six separate pieces
19th centuryTibetanPlaster
Stone with traces of polychromy; purportedly from the Tianlongshan Caves, near Taiyuan, Shanxi province
6th centuryChinesePlaster
18th centuryBritishGilt bronze
3rd-1st century BCEChineseWood, gesso and paint
20th centuryAmerican