18th-19th century
5.5 x 11.9 cm (2 3/16 x 4 11/16 in.)
Terracotta
7th century BCEGreekPlaster
Silver
17th centuryBritishPale greenish white nephrite
18th centuryChineseOff-white stoneware with ash coating and natural ash glaze over marks from shells used as firing supports; with signature reading "Ken" inscribed on the base before firing
21st centuryJapaneseEarthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBrass
15th centuryGermanGrayish brown agate with dark brown mottles
19th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with clear glaze
8th-9th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Ziqiang buxi yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Room of Unceasing Self-Improvement) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChinese