11th Century BCE
9.5 x 9.5 cm (3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
Monochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with clear glaze over applied powdered cobalt; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Qianlongnian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseSancai ("three color") ware: pinkish white earthenware with lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splahed clear glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior, the (slightly degraded) glazes over a white-slip ground
8th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration, the interior with vertical ribs trailed in white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChineseLead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with degraded lead-fluxed, emerald-green glaze
1st-2nd century CEChineseJizhou 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 centuryChineseGray earthenware
4th century BCEChineseGray earthenware
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseExport enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze blue, black, and gold enamels
20th centuryChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide, the base with an incised inscription reading 'Gongyu'. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province, probably from those at Luhuaping or Chidun.
12th-13th centuryChineseStoneware with celadon glaze
6th-7th centuryChineseCast bronze with decoration inlaid in hseet gold, silver, and sheet silver
17th centuryChinese