14th century
8 x 16.2 cm (3 1/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
Hard-paste porcelain with feldspathic glaze
GermanTerracotta
4th-3rd century BCEGreekSilver
19th centuryBritish, ScottishFritware painted with luster (copper and silver) over blue (cobalt) transparent alkali glaze and white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin
13th centuryPersianNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Chonghua gong Shufang zhai yong" (Palace of Double Glory, used in the Studio of Fresh Fragrance) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseTerracotta; buff clay, reddish and black glaze
7th century BCEGreekBone
5th centuryRoman?Terracotta
4th century BCEGreekTerracotta
CypriotTerracotta
1st century CERomanTerracotta, polished black ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide. Probably from the kilns at Zibo, Shandong province.
12th-13th centuryChinese