Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze green enamel, the wave pattern incised; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" inside the hollow stem

16th centuryChinese

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Waiter

Thomas Mason, 1724-1725

Silver

18th centuryBritish

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Footed Bowl

Unknown Artist, c. 3000-2800 BCE

Marble

3rd millennium BCECycladic

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Small Foliate-Rimmed Dish (One from a Set of Four)

Unknown Artist, Qianlong period, 1736-1795

White ware: glazed porcelain with incised mark reading "Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

18th centuryChinese

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Circular Incense Burner with Decoration of Deer and Crane Amidst Bamboo, Pine, and Clouds

Unknown Artist, 19th century

White ware: porcelain with light bluish glaze over molded decoration. From the kilns at Punwŏn-ri, Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province.

19th centuryKorean

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Cup-Kotyle

Unknown Artist, c. 400-350 BCE

Terracotta, black glaze

4th century BCEGreek

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Aryballos: Scale Pattern

Unknown Artist, 6th century BCE

Terracotta

6th century BCEGreek

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Skyphos (drinking cup): Preparation of Clay or Agricultural Scene

The Theseus Painter, c. 510-500 BCE

Terracotta

6th century BCEGreek

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Wine pot (pou)

Unknown Artist, probably 11th-early 10th century BCE

Gray earthenware

11th-10th century BCEChinese

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Cup in the Form of a Lotus Leaf with Decoration of Lotuses and a Crab

Unknown Artist, 17th century

Carved rhinoceros horn

17th centuryChinese

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Tall, wide-mouthed jar

Unknown Artist, 5th century BCE

Gray stoneware

5th century BCEChinese