2.25 x 1.13 cm (7/8 x 7/16 in.)
Gilt bronze
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChinesePainted Jizhou ware: very light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseGray stoneware with blackened surface
4th century BCEChineseTransitional blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
17th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseGray stoneware with incised and impressed decoration
3rd-1st century BCEChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze. Recovered from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseSoft-paste porcelain with colorless glaze over incised decoration
19th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
17th-18th centuryChineseCast bronze
1st-2nd century CEChineseBronze
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