400-700
"Incantation Bowl": Unglazed ceramic bowl with rounded bottom. Magical inscriptions encircling interior.
6.7 x 15.9 cm (2 5/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
Richard C. Brockway, acquired this object in the early 1960s.
Terracotta
16th-15th century BCEEgyptianCeladon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze
12th centuryKoreanMonochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with lightly variegated copper red glaze on the interior and very pale celadon glaze on the interior and base; with 19th-early 20th century carved and assembled wood cover with tourmaline knob
18th-19th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
7th century BCEGreekTerracotta
9th century BCEGreekJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
7th century BCEGreekEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels
16th-17th centuryChineseMixed copper alloy
10th-8th century BCEIranianSilver
18th centuryBritishYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved, incised, and combed decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th-13th centuryChinese