11th Century BCE
9.5 x 9.5 cm (3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
Mottled buff and olive-green nephrite, dimly translucent at the edges
3rd century BCE-1st century CEChineseMonochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with yellow enamel on the exterior and clear glaze on the interior; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain, "mirror black" type: porcelain with black glaze and decoration painted in overglaze gold enamel
18th centuryChineseGrayish buff earthenware
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinesePale greenish white nephrite
18th centuryChineseRusset Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron-oxide. Probably from the kilns at Jianci villiage, possibly from those at East or West Yanchuan village, Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain, "famille noir" type: porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue hallmark of an artemisia leaf with a ribbon
17th-19th centuryChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseCast bronze
2nd-1st century BCEChineseWhite ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-white glaze (the glaze possibly over white slip)
8th-9th centuryChinese