12th-13th century
8.1 x 17.9 cm (3 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Terracotta; buff clay
8th century BCEGreekEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseShufu ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze; with molded characters reading "Shu Fu" incorporated into the design
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
2nd millennium BCEMycenaeanTerracotta, black glaze, decorated with grooves
5th-4th century BCEEtruscanBiscuit porcelain with decoration painted in green, aubergine, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th centuryChinesePunch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over inscription incised through white-slip ground
15th-16th centuryKoreanTransferware porcelain
19th centuryBritishLight gray stoneware with incised and openwork decoration and with traces of natural ash glaze
5th centuryKoreanJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the glaze with kiln transmutations. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChinese