H. 29.21 cm (11 1/2 in.)
Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
13th-14th centuryChineseDing ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the vertical ribs trailed in white slip, the unglazed lip bound with metal. From the Ding kilns in Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th centuryChineseEarthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze
8th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChineseCast bronze with malachite and copper inlays
5th century BCEChineseGreenish white nephrite
19th centuryChineseCast bronze with green patina; with an inscription on the interior
11th-10th century BCEChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with ogival panels decorated with overglaze polychrome enamels, the panels reserved against an underglaze cobalt powder blue ground emblazoned with designs painted in overglaze gold enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red, green, yellow, and gold enamels; with cursorily written underglaze cobalt-blue mark possibly reading "Wan Fu Yu Tong" on the base
16th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChineseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChinese