H. 4.45 x Diam. 12.7 cm (1 3/4 x 5 in.)
Porcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with gold enamel painted on a red enamel ground added to the exterior at a later date; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" within a single circle on the base.
16th-17th centuryChineseGray stoneware with blackened surface
5th-4th century BCEChineseOlive and grayish-green translucent nephrite with deep brown and dark green patches and with altered areas
3rd-1st century BCEChineseBlue-and-white ware: procelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
17th centuryChineseProto-porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
11th-9th century BCEChineseRed earthenware
2nd millennium BCEChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red and green enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark simulating a coin and reading "Chang Ming Fu Gui"
16th-17th centuryChineseDark gray earthenware with inscription incised on the interior wall of the footring after firing
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseWhite ware: glazed porcelain with incised mark reading "Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseLead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with degraded lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze
1st-3rd century CEChineseCast bronze; with inscription on the vessel floor and interior of cover
20th centuryChinese