first half 8th century
H. 5.2 x Diam. 8.1 cm (2 1/16 x 3 3/16 in.)
Silver with repousse decoration picked out in parcel gilding
7th-8th centuryChineseSancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed clear, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChineseChangsha ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over white slip and underglaze decoration painted in iron-brown and copper-green pigments, the rim with touches of iron-brown. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.
9th centuryChineseStoneware with dark brown glaze and overglaze blue splashes
8th-9th centuryChineseWhite ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-white glaze (the glaze possibly over white slip)
8th-9th centuryChineseOff-white stoneware with clear glaze
9th centuryChineseBronze
7th-10th centuryChineseSancai ("three color") ware: pink earthenware with lead-fluxed clear glaze embellished with designs in cobalt-blue, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes over a white-slip ground
8th centuryChineseWhite earthenware with leadfluxed, cobaltsplashed glaze
8th centuryChineseStoneware with brown glaze
8th-9th centuryChineseBurnished black earthenware
8th-9th centuryChineseTurned bronze
7th-9th centuryChinese