Proto-porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
8th-7th century BCEChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChinesePorcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base
17th centuryChineseGreenish yellow nephrite with localized brown markings
18th-19th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over molded decoration
12th-13th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamels added at a later date; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Tianqi nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th 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 centuryChineseCast bronze
ChineseCast bronze
14th-17th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
11th-12th centuryChineseCast bronze; with dedicatory inscription cast on vessel floor
11th-10th century BCEChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Yongzheng nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
18th centuryChinese