14th century
H. 31.5 cm (12 3/8 in.)
Porcelain with an all-over coating of overglaze yellow enamel, the designs reserved in yellow against a red enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi"
16th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChinesePale grayish white nephrite; with mark on the base reading 'Qianlong Yu Zhi' in seal-script characters
18th centuryChineseFritware painted with luster (copper and silver) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin
12th-13th centuryLight gray stoneware with blackened surfaces, the decoration polished into the matte surface before firing
5th-3rd century BCEChineseJian 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
5th century BCEGreekTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekSilver
18th centuryAmericanCarved anhydrite
16th-15th century BCEEgyptian