H. 4.45 x Diam. 12.7 cm (1 3/4 x 5 in.)
Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Probably from a kiln at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.
15th centuryChineseGreen jadeite, the vessel with inclusions of white albite
18th-19th centuryChineseCold-painted funerary ware: molded light gray earthenware with cold-painted red pigment
1st-3rd century CEChineseRose quartz
19th-20th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved against a cobalt-blue ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseHorn
17th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with appliqué handles and dark brown glaze. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.
6th-7th centuryChineseCast bronze
ChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseCast bronze with gray-green patina; with an inscription cast on both the vessel floor and lid interior
14th-11th century BCEChineseJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChinese