4.76 x 1.27 cm (1 7/8 x 1/2 in.)
Gray earthenware
11th-10th century BCEChineseEnameled 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 centuryChineseLight gray earthenware with incised decoration
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the saggar made of coarse reddish buff firing clay. Probably from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th centuryChineseCeramic
ChineseBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseLead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with degraded lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze
1st-3rd century CEChineseRed earthenware
2nd millennium BCEChinesePorcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, yellow, green, and black enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChineseLacquered wood and bronze
3rd-1st century BCEChineseTransparent amber glass over lead core, the lead possibly covered with gold foil
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