10th century
8 x 25.5 cm (3 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
19th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 4 (si) inscribed on base before firing; "Chonghua gong jingqi xuan yong" (Palace of Double Glory, used in the Pavilion of Serene Repose) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
RomanLight gray stoneware with light grayish-blue glaze over openwork decoration. Made in northeastern Korea, probably in Hoeryŏng-gun, possibly in Myŏngch'ŏn-gun, North Hamgyŏng province.
19th centuryKoreanTerracotta with glossy black paint
RomanLight brown glass
1st-2nd century CERomanTerracotta; reddish yellow clay with slip, decoration in dark brown glaze
7th century BCEGreekStoneware with variegated blue glaze, the exposed body at the foot coated with an iron brown slip
19th centuryChineseImitation Wanli, "wucai" type ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
19th-20th centuryJapaneseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
11th-12th centuryChinese