c. 1953
17.2 x 13.34 x 4.5 cm (6 3/4 x 5 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Stone
19th centuryEuropean?
Nickel silver and ebony
20th centuryGermanTerracotta
2nd-3rd century CERoman"Wucai" (five-color) ware, of so-called "kinrande" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome and gold enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Fu Gui Jia Qi" on the base
16th centuryChineseWhite ware: porcelain with light bluish glaze over molded decoration. From the kilns at Punwŏn-ri, Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province.
19th centuryKoreanTerracotta with encaustic painted decoration
18th centuryBritishChangsha ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over white slip and underglaze decoration painted in iron-brown and copper-green pigments, the rim with touches of iron-brown. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.
9th centuryChineseHard paste porcelain with feldspathic glaze
19th centuryGermanNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 6 (liu) inscribed inside the footring before firing
15th centuryChineseEnameled red-and-white ware, "youli hong" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze copper red and overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Yongzheng nian zhi" within the hollow stem
18th centuryChineseSilver
19th centuryBritish