possibly late 17th-early 18th Century
H. 23.7 cm (9 5/16 in.)
Marble
3rd millennium BCECycladicAlabaster
3rd millennium BCEEgyptianSilver
19th centuryFrenchTerracotta
7th century BCEGreekLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze over molded decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta with brown lustrous paint
6th century BCEGreekSue ware: gray surfaced reddish-brown stoneware with incised decoration
7th-8th centuryJapaneseGreen-dipped jasperware with figures and decoration in white jasperware
18th-19th centuryBritishNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Changchun shuwu yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Studio of Everlasting Spring) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseTerracotta with shell temper, hand made
13th centuryPre-ColumbianEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels
16th-17th centuryChinese