Yue ware: light gray stoneware with incised, molded, and appliqué decoration under celadon glaze. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area, northeastern Zhejiang province.

3rd-4th century CEChinese

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Terra Sigillata Cup with Bud and Flower Pattern

Unknown Artist, first century CE

Terracotta

1st century CERoman

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Vase

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Ceramic

19th centuryJapanese

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Shallow Bowl with Stylized Floral Design

Unknown Artist, 14th-15th century

Stoneware with blue-and-white glaze

14th-15th centuryChinese

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Deep Bowl with In-Curving Rim and Small Partridge-Feather Mottles

Unknown Artist, 12th century

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lower portion dressed with dark brown slip.

12th centuryChinese

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Basin

Unknown Artist, Majiayao phase, c. 3300-2650 BCE

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese

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Globular Depressed Stirrup Jar

Unknown Artist, 1375-1300 BCE

Terracotta

14th century BCEMycenaean

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Small Dish with Notched Rim (one of six)

Unknown Artist, 11th-early 12th century

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

11th-12th centuryChinese