12th-13th century
max.: H. 4.3 × Diam. 8.8 cm (1 11/16 × 3 7/16 in.) mouth: Diam. 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.) foot: Diam. 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.)
Stoneware with blue and white glaze
17th centuryChineseBiscuit porcelain with decoration painted in green, aubergine, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th centuryChineseStoneware with celadon glaze
6th centuryChineseSilver
17th centuryBritishNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Dongnuan ge louxia yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the East Heated Chamber, main floor) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseFritware with overglaze painted decoration in luster
12th-13th centuryPersianJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseExport blue-and-white ware, imitation kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue hallmark of a single Chinese character reading "yu" (jade) within a double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseCeramic
20th centuryAmericanTerracotta
4th millennium BCEUbaidSilver
18th centuryBritishTerracotta
4th-1st century BCEPunic