c. 1500 BCE - c. 1000 BCE
H. 31 x W. 24.8 x Diam. 19.7 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.)
Buff clay with dark brown painted decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEIranianColorless glass
1st-3rd century CERoman
Porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, green, black, and gold enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Ta Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
19th-20th centuryChineseSilver
17th centuryBritishTerracotta
4th century BCESouth ItalianYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
10th-11th centuryChineseTerracotta
6th-5th century BCEGreekBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" in a double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseSilver, fruitwood
18th centuryBritishBronze
ChineseTerracotta; Six's technique, white on black glaze; red ground
6th-5th century BCEGreekYue ware: light gray stoneware with carved and appliqué décor. From the Yue kilns in the Shanglinhu area, northeastern Zhejiang province
6th centuryChinese