20th century
16.19 cm (6 3/8 in.)
Terracotta; buff clay, red glaze
8th century BCEGreekTerracotta
4th-7th centuryByzantineMonochrome glazed porcelain; porcelain with pale cobalt-blue glaze, the rim finished with an application of iron-brown slip simulating a metal band; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base
18th-19th centuryChineseOlive-green glass
1st-2nd century CERomanFritware incised, pierced, and painted with blue (cobalt) under clear alkali glaze
18th-20th centuryLacquered earthenware
3rd-2nd century BCEChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
10th-11th centuryChineseSilver
19th centuryAmericanTerracotta
4th-3rd century BCEGreekEnameled porcelain, "famille noir" type: porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue hallmark of an artemisia leaf with a ribbon
17th-19th centuryChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseCeramic
19th centuryRussian