Buff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
3rd millennium BCEChineseWhite stoneware with ivory hued glaze
8th-9th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinesePorphyry; six-character mark in seal script on the base reading 'Da Qing Qianlongnian zhi'
18th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale, sky-blue glaze over molded decoration, the unglazed lip banded with silver. From the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
12th-13th centuryChineseReddish brown stoneware; with two-character seal mark impressed on the base
20th centuryChineseHuangpu black-glazed ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze decoratively applied over a thick coat of white slip that covers the interior and that portion of the exterior under the lip. From the Huangpu kiln, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.
9th-10th centuryChineseCast bronze; with an inscription cast behind the animal's neck
14th-11th century BCEChineseBlack earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the base with a brush-written inscription reading 'Te'
12th-13th centuryChinesePorcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red and green enamels, probably added at a later date
16th-17th centuryChinese