2.25 x 1.13 cm (7/8 x 7/16 in.)
White earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseProto porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
5th-3rd century BCEChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze yellow enamel
19th centuryChinesePorcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamel designs and yellow enamel ground added at a later date; with spurious overglaze black enamel mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base, the mark and double circle also covered in yellow enamel
16th-17th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base; “Ying tai Lan shi yong” (Ocean Terrace, used in the Orchid Room) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseExport blue-and-white ware, kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
16th-17th centuryChineseEarthenware with green lead glaze
11th-12th centuryChineseStoneware with variegated blue glaze, the exposed body at the foot coated with an iron brown slip
19th centuryChineseTranslucent pale green nephrite with brown veins and slightly calcified, bone-colored patches; gilt bronze rim
2nd-1st century BCEChineseSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
13th-14th centuryChinese