late Tang to Song period, 9th-13th century
H. 2.2 x Diam. 3.2 cm (7/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
Lead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with degraded lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze; the cover with molded decoration
1st-2nd century CEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTurned bronze
7th-9th centuryChineseSancai ("three color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splashed clear glaze on the lip and exterior, the glazes slightly degraded
8th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze, the domed base with a turquoise blue glaze, the rim banded with metal
15th centuryChinesePale grayish white nephrite; with mark on the base reading 'Qianlong Yu Zhi' in seal-script characters
18th centuryChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with variegated copper red glaze
19th centuryChineseEarthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
10th-11th centuryChineseHammered silver with chased decoration and parcel gilding
17th-20th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the russet markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th centuryChineseWoven sheet silver
6th centuryChinese