1925-1931
3.7 x 13.2 cm (1 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
Hard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanGanzhou ware: light gray stoneware, the unglazed exterior with combed and applique decoration, the unglazed neck with beads of pearly white glaze to form the bosses, the interior with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Qili Ganzhou, Jiangxi province
13th-14th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze yellow, pink, and red enamels and scrolling floral pattern lightly incised in the yellow enamel; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th-19th centuryChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekTerracotta, with bronze attachment
5th century BCEGreekTerracotta
White ware: porcelain with light bluish glaze. Probably made in Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province.
18th centuryKoreanCeramic
ChineseTerracotta
5th centuryGreekBuff-colored earthenware painted with luster (silver and copper) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin
10th centuryYue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised, carved, and applique decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.
11th centuryChineseSilver
16th-17th centuryBritish