20th century
18.42 cm (7 1/4 in.)
Red earthenware covered in off-white slip and painted with black (manganese and iron), green (chromium), and red (iron) under clear lead glaze
10th-11th centuryMonochrome enamelled ware: porcelain with yellow enamel applied on the biscuit over incised decoration, the base with clear glaze; spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark on base reading "Hongzhi nian zhi"
17th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoraiton painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Longqing nian zao" within a double circle on the base
16th centuryChineseTerracotta
GreekEarthenware with traces of slip-painted decoration
5th millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
GreekTerracotta
7th century BCEGreekTerracotta
4th century BCESouth ItalianJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseGrayish green nephrite
18th-19th centuryChineseStoneware with blue and white glaze
17th centuryChinese