H. 17.15 x Diam. 7.62 cm (6 3/4 x 3 in.)
Jizhou 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 centuryChineseSancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChineseTransparent amber glass over lead core, the lead possibly covered with gold foil
ChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChineseGray earthenware, the surface blackened and burnished before firing
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with lead fluxed glaze
6th-7th centuryChineseEarthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with lightly variegated copper red glaze on the interior and very pale celadon glaze on the interior and base; with 19th-early 20th century carved and assembled wood cover with tourmaline knob
18th-19th centuryChinesePale greenish white nephrite
18th-19th centuryChineseBronze
ChineseOriginally a pale greenish-white nephrite changed to a creamy-buff because of burning (so-called chicken-bone jade); the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan
16th-17th centuryChineseCeramic
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