H. 3.81 x Diam. 19.37 cm (1 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
Pale greenish white nephrite
18th-19th centuryChineseExport blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
18th centuryChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. Recovered from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseSilvered bronze
8th-9th 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 centuryChinesePorcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red and green enamels; with spurious mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi"
17th centuryChineseLight gray earthenware with incised decoration
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseEarthenware with cord impressed decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseYue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded, carved, and incised decoration
10th-11th centuryChineseEarthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseEarthenware with impressed decoration
2nd-1st century BCEChinese