3.81 x 2.54 cm (1 1/2 x 1 in.)
Red earthenware with painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseJizhou 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 centuryChineseLiao 'sancai' (three-color) ware: white-slipped, brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed green and amber glaze over incised decoration
10th-11th centuryChineseYue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze
3rd-4th century CEChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze polychrome and gold enamels; with overglaze red enamel mark reading "Da Qing Daoguang nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
19th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
13th-14th centuryChineseCast bronze
14th-17th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
16th centuryChineseDing ware: porcellaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns in Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with misfired dark brown glaze and bluish white markings, the markings probably from an application of ash
12th-13th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the designs reserved against a ground of overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Hongzhi nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
15th-16th centuryChinese