13th-14th century
4.8 x 8.7 cm (1 7/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
Shirley Nye, New York, NY, gift to HUAM
Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark on base reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
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2nd millennium BCEChineseSilver
19th-20th centuryBurmeseStoneware with celadon glaze
6th centuryChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekTerracotta, white ground
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12th-13th centurySyrianSilver
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18th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChinese