3.81 x 2.54 cm (1 1/2 x 1 in.)
Earthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with lightly variegated copper red glaze on the interior and very pale celadon glaze on the interior and base; with 19th-early 20th century carved and assembled wood cover with tourmaline knob
18th-19th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with black glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-brown slip
12th-13th centuryChineseBronze
ChineseWood
ChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration, the exterior with carved vertical lines suggesting petals. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseLight gray stoneware with dark brown glaze
11th centuryChineseWhite ware: porcelain with lightly incised "anhua" decoration at the top and bottom of the handle
15th centuryChinesePale greenish white nephrite
19th centuryChineseGilt bronze
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChinese