Cizhou-type lead-glazed ware: brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze over an all-over coating of white slip that has been incised and carved to create the decoration

12th-13th centuryChinese

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Pilgrim Flask

Unknown Artist, c. 500 BCE

Terracotta; pale reddish clay, black paint

6th-5th century BCEGreek

Vessels

Patera Handle with Ram's Head Terminal

Unknown Artist, 1st-2nd century CE

Bronze

1st-2nd century CERoman

Vessels

Circular Dish with Lightly Flaring Sides

Unknown Artist, late 14th-15th century

Plain celadon ware: very light gray porcellaneous stoneware with lightly crazed celadon glaze

14th-15th centuryKorean

Vessels

Lobed Flowerpot with Bracketed Foliate Rim

Unknown Artist, probably 15th century

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing

15th centuryChinese

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Large Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of Plum Blossom and Three Phoenixes in Flight

Unknown Artist, 13th-14th century

Jizhou 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 kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

13th-14th centuryChinese

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Facsimile of Hunting Goblet (Lüneburg School, c. 1570)

Unidentified Maker, c. 1900

Metal

20th centuryGerman

Vessels

Rectangular Bottle or Vase

Matsuzaki Ken, datable to 2000 or 2001

Off white (or very light gray) stoneware with ash coating and natural ash glaze; with signature of the artist reading "Ken" inscribed on the base before firing

21st centuryJapanese