8.26 x 19.69 cm (3 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.)
Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
12th-13th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green.
6th-7th centuryChineseCold-painted funerary ware: molded gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments probably added in the 20th century
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with variegated copper red glaze
18th-19th centuryChineseCarved wood, the knob made of semi-precious stone
19th-20th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and with overglaze yellow enamel over the white decoration; underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" written on the base against a cobalt-blue ground
16th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with splashes of transparent amber glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with incised and carved decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
15th-16th centuryChineseProto-porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
11th-9th century BCEChineseCast bronze
ChineseCloudy, grayish white nephrite
16th-17th centuryChineseCarved rhinocerous horn
18th centuryChinese