2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE
4.8 x 6 x 2.5 cm (1 7/8 x 2 3/8 x 1 in.)
Huangpu ware: light gray stoneware covered all over with white slip, the decoration painted in localized areas of discontinuous dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Shaanxi province
9th centuryChineseLacquered Papier-mâché
19th centuryKoreanLacquer on wood with Kōdaiji-style decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), e-nashiji (pictorial "pear-skinned" ground), and harigaki (linear incising) techniques; [modern] silver fittings
16th centuryJapaneseQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
13th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with ivory hued glaze
8th-9th centuryChineseTortoise shell, with brass fittings and painted lid
18th centuryFrenchPale greenish white nephrite
18th centuryChineseMetal
19th centuryFrenchLacquer on woven bamboo with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques and with sheet-lead and raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays
17th centuryJapanese
Box containing reproductions of seventy-one works by Duchamp
20th centuryFrench
Box with mounted Plexiglas wheel and various sample materials
20th centuryBritish