12th-13th century
Diam. 10.2 cm (4 in.)
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.
13th-14th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 5 (wu) inscribed inside the footring before firing and incised on the base after firing
15th centuryChineseFritware
14th centuryPersianDark green nephrite with black inclusions (so-called spinach-green jade); with spurious mark reading 'Qianlongnian zhi' in seal-script characters
19th centuryChineseSilver, carnelian
17th centuryBritishSilver
18th centuryFrenchTerracotta
6th century BCEEtruscanStoneware with brown and white glaze
14th-15th centuryThaiBiscuit porcelain with yellow, green, rose, and black enamels
18th-19th centuryChineseTerracotta, bucchero
7th century BCEEtruscanEarthenware with cord-marked decor
2nd-1st millennium BCEChinese