18th century
10 x 25 cm (3 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Polychrome plaster
GreekTerracotta
4th century BCEItalianTerracotta
6th century BCEEtruscanReddish earthenware covered in white slip and painted with red (iron), black (manganese and iron), and green (chromium) under clear lead glaze
10th-11th centuryDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over mold-impressed decoration, the unglazed rim bound with metal. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
12th-13th centuryChineseFritware, black painted under turquoise glaze
12th-13th centurySyrianBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian xhi" within a double circle on the base
19th centuryChineseMolded light gray stoneware with traces of natural ash glaze
17th-20th centuryKorean"Soft Jun" ware: light gray stoneware with thick, crackled robin's-egg blue glaze
12th-14th centuryChineseGray earthenware
2nd millennium BCEChineseGlass
2nd-4th century CERomanJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the saggar made of coarse reddish buff firing clay. Probably from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChinese