Cast bronze with greenish patina
11th-10th century BCEChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseLead-glazed funerary ware: brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed, caramel-brown glaze over mold-impressed handles, the decoration created through the application of lead-fluxed, emerald-green glaze over localized areas of the caramel-brown glaze
1st-2nd century CEChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseSancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, caramel-brown, and clear glazes over stamped decoration and with lead fluxed, pale yellow glaze on the feet. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseSilvered bronze
6th-7th centuryChinesePale greenish white nephrite
19th centuryChineseExport blue-and-white ware, kraak-type ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue hallmark of an artemisia leaf within a double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseCold-painted funerary ware: light gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments
1st-2nd century CEChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved, incised, and combed decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseTranslucent dark green nephrite with black inclusions (so-called spinach-green jade)
19th centuryChinese