5.08 x 21.59 cm (2 x 8 1/2 in.)
Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze
10th centuryChineseLacquer, black and red, with silver
ChinesePale buff stoneware with clear glaze mottled with emerald-green glaze over a white slip ground
9th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with incised decor, the surface burnished. Anyang type.
12th-10th century BCEChineseEarthenware with traces of cinnabar
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseGray earthenware
1st century BCE-1st century CEChinesePorcelain with decoration reserved in white against an overglaze red enamel ground, the pictorial elements articulated with black enamel, and the foliage covered with green enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
2nd-1st millennium BCEChineseYue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze and overglaze decoration
4th century CEChinesePorcelain with incised and carved elements, decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and copper red, and celadon glaze in localized areas
19th centuryChineseSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseCast bronze with gray-green patina; with an inscription cast on both the vessel floor and lid interior
14th-11th century BCEChinese