Gray stoneware with variegated clear, white, and pale lavender blue glazes over impressed decoration (so-called "mishima" technique); with incised signature of the artist reading "Makoto YABE" on the unglazed base, the surname written idiosyncratically

21st centuryJapanese

Vessels

Long-Necked, Pear-Shaped Bottle with Decoration of Two Floral Sprays

Unknown Artist, 12th century

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron oxide

Terracotta

Unknown Artist, 9th-6th century BCE

Terracotta

9th-6th century BCEUrartian

Vessels

Large Footed Bowl with Inscription and Decoration

Unknown Artist, 1655-1656

Tinned copper

17th centuryPersian

Vessels

Small Circular Wine Bowl with Purple Splashes

Unknown Artist, 12th-13th century

Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

12th-13th centuryChinese

Vessels

Kothon

Unknown Artist, 550-500 BCE

Terracotta

6th century BCEGreek

Vessels

Wide-bodied jar

Unknown Artist, 3rd-1st century BCE

Gray earthenware with cold-painted pigment

3rd-1st century BCEChinese

Small Dish with Notched Rim (one of six)

Unknown Artist, 11th-early 12th century

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

11th-12th centuryChinese

Vessels

Jade Covered Tripod Censer with Two Dragon-Head Ring-Handles, the Cover with a Knob in the Form of a Lion and Cub

Unknown Artist, late 18th-early 19th century, possibly Qianlong period (1736-1795)

Green jadeite, the vessel with inclusions of white albite

18th-19th centuryChinese