6.35 x 18.42 cm (2 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
Red-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze copper red; with underglaze cobalt blue circle on the base
18th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze over incised, carved, and combed decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
13th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels
16th-17th centuryChinesePorcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red and green enamels, probably added at a later date
16th-17th centuryChineseMonochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze coral-red enamel; with overglaze red enamel mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseHorn
17th centuryChineseSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseYue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze
10th centuryChineseGray earthenware with cold-painted decoration
2nd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with impressed decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Ziqiang buxi yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Room of Unceasing Self-Improvement) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue, the background areas embellished later with overglaze red enamel; underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Zhengde nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th centuryChinese