early 12th-late 13th Century
H. 9 x Diam. 19.4 cm (3 9/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with "anhua" decoration painted in white slip on the interior cavetto and with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" on the base
20th centuryChineseLacquer, black and red, with silver
ChineseIncised celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration
12th centuryKoreanHard paste porcelain with feldspathic glaze
19th centuryGermanTerracotta, bucchero
6th century BCEEtruscanPlaster
Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze over incised, carved, and combed decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
13th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised and carved decoration
12th centuryChineseCeladon ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.
6th-7th centuryChineseSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
13th-14th centuryChineseStoneware with brown and white glaze
14th-15th centuryThaiBuff-colored earthenware covered in pinkish slip and painted with black (manganese and iron), red (iron), yellow (lead-tin), and green (copper) under clear lead glaze
10th century