Kangxi period, 1662-1722
H. 47 cm (18 1/2 in.)
Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Changchun shuwu yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Studio of Everlasting Spring) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseTerracotta; black and red glaze
8th century BCEGreekBronze
ChineseGray stoneware
2nd-1st century BCEChineseHammered silver with chased decoration and parcel gilding
17th-20th centuryChineseTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekCast bronze with green patina; with an inscription on the interior
11th-10th century BCEChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown and transparent amber glazes. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over molded and carved decoration
12th centuryChineseSancai ("three color") ware: pinkish white earthenware with lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splahed clear glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior, the (slightly degraded) glazes over a white-slip ground
8th centuryChinesePorcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with gold enamel painted on a red enamel ground added to the exterior at a later date; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" within a single circle on the base.
16th-17th centuryChineseMetal
18th-19th centuryEuropean