4.76 x 1.27 cm (1 7/8 x 1/2 in.)
Cast bronze
ChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChineseHammered and turned Bronze
8th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in black slip on a white-slip ground under a clear glaze, the clear glaze then covered all over with a lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze; with brush-written inscription on the interior of the foot ring
12th-13th centuryChinesePorcelain with blue enamel and gilding
18th-19th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
10th-11th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: molded porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and yellow and red enamels over reserved decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading 'Da Ming Longqing nian zao' within a double circle on the base
16th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseWood
ChineseEarthenware with cord impressed decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseMonochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze (now much degraded)
8th centuryChinese