H. 4.45 x Diam. 12.7 cm (1 3/4 x 5 in.)
Porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red and green enamels
17th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown and transparent amber glazes. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseYue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.
9th-10th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
18th centuryChineseNumbered-Jun-type ware: light gray stonware with variegated lavender-blue glaze, the glaze shading to olive brown where thin
15th centuryChineseStoneware with blue and white glaze
14th-15th centuryChineseHorn
17th centuryChineseEarthenware with traces of slip-painted decoration
5th millennium BCEChineseMonochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th centuryChineseMisfired Jian ware: dark brown stoneware with misfired glaze turned olive
12th-13th centuryChineseQingbai-type ware: porcelain or porcellaneous white stoneware with sky-blue glaze over carved and combed decoration. Probably from a kiln in Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChinese