18th-19th century
H. 20.8 cm (8 3/16 in.)
Gilt bronze
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseSoft-paste porcelain with colorless glaze over molded decoration
19th centuryChineseWhite ware: white stoneware with clear, pale celadon-type glaze
7th centuryChineseJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseGray earthenware with incised decoration
2nd-3rd century CEChineseGray earthenware
2nd millennium BCEChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; the rim darked with underglaze iron-brown slip; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th centuryChineseHorn
17th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decor. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th centuryChineseGray earthenware with cold painted pigment
1st-3rd century CEChineseReddish brown stoneware, the interior finished with a crackled white glaze; with four-character seal mark impressed into the base
20th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
16th centuryChinese