first half 20th century
Diam. 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.)
Satsuma ware; white earthenware with designs in overglaze polychrome enamels and with relief and three-dimensional applique decoration and applied stones
19th centuryJapaneseYue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over appliqué decoration
4th century CEChineseSilver
DutchPainted Jizhou ware: very light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseJian ware: medium gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze gold. Perhaps from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
13th-14th centuryChineseTerracotta
5th-4th century BCESouth ItalianCarved rhinoceros horn
16th centuryChineseAlabaster
16th-11th century BCEEgyptianStone
19th centuryEuropean?Soft-paste porcelain with colorless glaze over incised decoration
19th centuryChineseEarthenware with traces of slip-painted decoration
5th millennium BCEChinese