Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

8th centuryChinese

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Shallow, Circular Plate with Decoration of Pine and Plum

Unknown Artist, second half 17th century

Imari ware: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt-blue

17th centuryJapanese

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Broad-shouldered jar

Unknown Artist, Banshan phase, c. 2650-2300 BCE

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration

3rd millennium BCEChinese

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Beaked Oinochoe

Unknown Artist, 4th century BCE

Terracotta with black paint and traces of white painted spiral decoration

4th century BCESouth Italian

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Lekythos (oil flask): Seated Figure playing a Lyre flanked by Two Seated Listeners

Unknown Artist, 5th century BCE

Terracotta

5th century BCEGreek

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Tripod steamer (yan)

Unknown Artist, c. 2600-2000 BCE

Earthenware

3rd millennium BCEChinese

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Lobed 'Maebyŏng' Bottle with Animal-Mask Handles

Unknown Artist, 11th-13th century

Light gray stoneware with appliqué handles and traces of natural ash glaze

11th-13th centuryKorean

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Deep Kylix

Unknown Artist

Terracotta; white slip with red and black decoration

Cypriot

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'You' Covered Ritual Wine Vessel with Elephant and 'Taotie' Decor and with Ram-Head Bail Handle

Unknown Artist, late 11th-early 10th century BCE

Cast bronze with greenish patina; with dedicatory inscription by Servitor Chen inscribed on both the vessel floor and lid interior

11th-10th century BCEChinese

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Ceremonial Stand with Abstract and Openwork Decoration

Unknown Artist, mid 6th century

Kaya-type ware: gray stoneware with combed and openwork decoration and with considerable natural ash glaze. Reportedly recovered from the Tomb of the Generals in Yangji-ri, Hyŏnp'ung-myŏn, Talsŏng-gun, near Kyŏngju, North Kyŏngsang province in 1960.

6th centuryKorean