9th century
H. 23.2 x Diam. 15 cm (9 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. From the Jian kilns at Jianyang, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishBronze
8th-7th century BCEPhoenicianSilver
18th centuryAmericanTerracotta
GreekPale greenish white nephrite
18th-19th centuryChineseTerracotta
GreekPainted Jizhou ware: off-white stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze iron slip under clear glaze. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseReddish earthenware covered in whitish slip and painted with green (chromium) slip under clear lead glaze
10th centuryTerracotta with shell temper, hand made
13th centuryPre-ColumbianEnameled 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 centuryChinese