late 11th-early 12th century
6.5 x 21.6 cm (2 9/16 x 8 1/2 in.)
Shirley Nye, New York, NY, gift to HUAM
Probably Korean Kaya-type ware, possibly Japanese Sue ware: gray stoneware with openwork decoration and with splashes of natural ash glaze
6th centuryKoreanTerracotta; buff clay
11th-8th century BCECypriotEarthenware with brown and beige glaze
14th-15th centuryThaiTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekFritware painted with black (chromium), turquoise (copper), blue (cobalt), brownish-red (iron), and pink (iron and tin) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin, and gilded.
12th-13th centuryCeramic
19th centuryJapaneseSimulated jiaotai ware; light gray stoneware with pale yellow glaze over appliqué thin layers of brown and white clays laminated to simulate marbling
11th-13th centuryChineseOriginally a pale greenish-white nephrite changed to a creamy-buff because of burning (so-called chicken-bone jade); the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan
16th-17th centuryChineseTerracotta
RomanJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta; pale yellow clay and slip with light brown paint and applied purple
7th century BCEGreekEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese