8th-9th century
16.2 x 11.4 cm (6 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
Gray stoneware with blackened surface
6th-3rd century BCEChinesePlaster
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.
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekTerracotta
CypriotTerracotta, brown-gray ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseCreamware, black transfer printed
19th centuryBritishSilver
19th centuryAmericanEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseGlass, engraved and gilded
18th centuryBritish