18th-19th century
H. 8.9 x Diam. 21 cm (3 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)
Buff pottery with brown encrustation
1st millennium BCEIranianSilver and glass
19th centuryAmericanEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue surrounded by a wide border of overglaze red enamel (probably added at a later date) and exterior decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels
16th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with grayish olive celadon glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt-blue
15th centuryVietnameseHammered brass, incised and inlaid with silver (now mostly lost)
14th centuryPersian
Jun-type ware: light gray stoneware with light blue glaze enlivened with bluish-purple splashes; with circular seal reading "Minoru" impressed into the wall of the foot-ring before firing
20th centuryJapaneseBurnished black stoneware
8th-9th centuryChineseBronze
ChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekSilver
17th centuryBritish