Stoneware with brown glaze
8th-9th centuryChineseGilt bronze
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseBiscuit porcelain with decoration painted in green, aubergine, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th centuryChineseCast bronze
4th-3rd century BCEChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze green enamel, the wave pattern incised; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" inside the hollow stem
16th centuryChineseLongquan ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised and combed decoration. From the kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
15th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseGray stoneware with incised and impressed decoration
3rd-1st century BCEChineseCast bronze
14th-17th centuryChineseBiscuit porcelain with decoration painted in green, aubergine, turquoise, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseCeramic
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