17th century
14.75 x 25 cm (5 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Terracotta
6th century BCEGreekExport blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
18th centuryChineseGray stoneware
5th century BCEChinese
Brass with mercury silvered interiors and ebony fixtures
20th centuryGermanGray earthenware with cold painted decoration
2nd-1st century BCEChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekFritware
13th-14th centuryPersianSilver
18th centuryAmericanSilver
17th centuryBritishMottled dark green nephrite (so-called spinach-green jade)
19th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing; "Jianfu gong Sanyou xuan yong" (Palace of Established Happiness, used in the Veranda of Three Friends) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritish, Scottish