8 × 7.5 cm (3 1/8 × 2 15/16 in.)
Carved rhinoceros horn
18th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseRed-and-white ware, "youli hong" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze copper red; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Yongzheng nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
18th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the exterior with russet skin, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th centuryChinesePale greenish white nephrite
18th-19th centuryChineseBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseSilver with incised decoration
14th centuryChineseMonochrome biscuit porcelain: porcelain with yellow enamel over molded decoration
18th-19th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChineseGray earthenware with cold-painted pigments
2nd-1st century BCEChineseCizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing
14th-15th centuryChinese