20th century
16.19 cm (6 3/8 in.)
Yellow nephrite with brown markings
18th centuryChineseAlabaster
Mixed copper alloy
Unidentified centuryUnidentified cultureNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion of the exterior dressed with black slip. From the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.
12th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with stamped decoration with traces of natural ash glaze
8th-9th centuryKoreanSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
3rd millennium BCECypriotTerracotta
3rd-7th centurySasanianHorn
17th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryAmerican