4.76 x 1.27 cm (1 7/8 x 1/2 in.)
Gray earthenware with cold painted pigments
2nd-1st century BCEChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze yellow, green, and black enamels on the upper portion and the lower portion with an underglaze cobalt powder blue ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on base
17th-18th centuryChineseGilt bronze
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseEarthenware with cord impressed decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChinesePorcelain with decoration painted in gold enamel over a red enamel ground added at a later date
16th centuryChineseWhite ware: glazed porcelain with incised mark reading "Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with sky blue glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip
12th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved against a cobalt-blue ground
19th centuryChineseDing-type ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over molded decoration. Perhaps from kilns at Jiexu, Shanxi province.
12th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseMottled buff and olive-green nephrite, dimly translucent at the edges
3rd century BCE-1st century CEChineseShell with gilt bronze fitting
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChinese