18th-19th century
3.5 x 4.5 cm (1 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
15th centuryChineseGrayish brown agate with dark brown mottles
19th centuryChineseNautilus shell and silver, parcel-gilt
17th centuryGermanStoneware with blue-and-white glaze
14th-15th centuryChineseTerracotta
GreekTerracotta
9th-8th century BCEGreekTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekLight gray stoneware with appliqué handles and dark brown glaze. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.
6th-7th centuryChineseOriginally a pale greenish-white nephrite changed to a creamy-buff because of burning (so-called chicken-bone jade); the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan
16th-17th centuryChineseLacquer
19th centuryChinese