1950s
The underside of the bowl is stamped: "PURE SILVER AAGE WEIMAR DENMARK." The name Aage is stylized with overlapping capital "A"s in a modernist style. A shallow silver bowl marked by seemingly random silver "drippings" and an overall rough surface.
3.8 x 19.4 cm (1 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
David Berg, Bequest, 1999.
Hard-paste porcelain with monochrome enamel decoration
18th centuryGermanNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the russet decoration painted in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseCeramic
17th centuryJapaneseTerracotta
Satsuma ware; white earthenware with designs in overglaze polychrome enamels and with relief and three-dimensional applique decoration and applied stones
19th centuryJapaneseCizhou-type lead-glazed ware: brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze over an all-over coating of white slip that has been incised and carved to create the decoration
12th-13th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishTerracotta
2nd millennium BCENear EasternJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the saggar made of coarse reddish buff firing clay. Probably from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
TurkishNickel silver and ebony
20th centuryGerman