11th-early 12th century
2.5 x 10.9 cm (1 x 4 5/16 in.)
Shirley Nye, New York, NY, gift to HUAM
Enameled 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 centuryChineseAlabaster
16th-11th century BCEEgyptianTerracotta; reddish yellow clay with slip, decoration in dark brown glaze
7th century BCEGreekMetal
Gray earthenware with traces of natural ash glaze
JapaneseTerracotta
8th century BCEGreekHard-paste porcelain decorated with polychome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanTerracotta
4th-3rd century BCEGreekLead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze (now much degraded) over a white slip ground on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior
8th centuryChineseGrayish brown agate with brown mottles
19th centuryChineseEarthenware with brown lead glaze
1st-3rd century CEChineseEarthenware with applique and impressed decoration
3rd millennium BCEChinese