late Tang to Song period, 9th-13th century
H. 2.2 x Diam. 3.2 cm (7/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding
18th-19th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with lustrous clear glaze over white slip ground, the glaze enlivened with three emerald-green splashes
10th-11th centuryChineseLead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with degraded lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze
1st-3rd century CEChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChineseGrisaille-enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in black and iron-red enamels; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Yongzheng nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th-20th centuryChineseCast bronze; with integrally cast inscriptions on vessel floor and interior of cover
11th century BCEChineseLight gray stoneware with incised decor, the surface burnished. Anyang type.
12th-10th century BCEChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseNanfeng ware: light gray stoneware with decoration reserved against the medium brown glaze, the rim and reserved designs with clear glaze over white slip. From the Baishe kilns in Nanfeng county, Jiangxi province
12th-13th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over molded decoration
12th-13th centuryChineseWood
ChineseWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChinese