Koryŏ white ware: molded white porcelaneous stoneware with pale bluish-green glaze. Reportedly recovered from a tomb in Posŏng, South Chŏlla province, in 1962.

12th centuryKorean

Vessels

Zoomorphic Vessel

Unknown Artist, 1100-500 BCE

Buff pottery

1st millennium BCEIranian

Terracotta

Spouted tripod ewer (he)

Unknown Artist, 1900-1500 BCE

Earthenware

2nd millennium BCEChinese

Vessels

Knidian Stamped Amphora Handle

Unknown Artist, 2nd century BCE

Terracotta

2nd century BCEGreek

Vessels

Vase

François Briot, 16th century

Pewter

Terracotta

Cup in the Form of an Archaic Bronze 'Ding' Vessel with 'Zhilong' Decor

Sheng Fugong 盛輔功, late 17th cent. - early 18th cent.

Carved rhinoceros horn, with incised seal mark reading 'Sheng Fugong zuo' on the base

17th-18th centuryChinese

Vessels

Ovoid Jar (So-Called Ginger Jar) with Two Decorative Cartouches Featuring Antiquities and Auspicious Emblems, the Cartouches on a "Shattered Ice" Ground Embellished with Branches of Blossoming Plum

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the cartouches and plum branches reserved against a cobalt-blue ground

19th centuryChinese

Vessels

Serpentine "Blossom Bowl " or "Bird's Nest" vase

Unknown Artist, c. 2500-2000 BCE

Stone

3rd millennium BCENear Eastern

Vessels

Cream Jug

Hester Bateman, 1779-1780

Silver

18th centuryBritish