18th-19th century
H. 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)
Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
18th centuryChinesePale yellow-green glass
1st century CERomanSteel with gold overlay
19th centuryPersianEarthenware
2nd-1st millennium BCEChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and with overglaze yellow enamel over the white decoration; underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" written on the base against a cobalt-blue ground
16th centuryChineseTerracotta
Terracotta, black ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th centuryChineseCast bronze
ChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
13th-14th centuryChinese