11th Century BCE
9.5 x 9.5 cm (3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChinesePale greenish white nephrite
18th centuryChineseOriginally 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 centuryChineseCast bronze
11th-10th century BCEChineseNumbered 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 centuryChineseCarved Wood with nephrite knob
19th-20th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip
12th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
18th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChinese