3.81 x 2.54 cm (1 1/2 x 1 in.)
Burnished black stoneware
8th-9th centuryChinesePale grayish white nephrite; with mark on the base reading 'Qianlong Yu Zhi' in seal-script characters
18th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseNumbered-Jun-type ware: light gray stonware with variegated lavender-blue glaze, the glaze shading to olive brown where thin
15th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseEarthenware with incised decoration
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseExport blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
18th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" on the base
19th centuryChineseReddish brown stoneware, the interior finished with a crackled white glaze; with four-character seal mark impressed into the base
20th centuryChinese