4th century BCE
11.2 x 10.4 cm (4 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCast bronze with decoration inlaid in silver wire; with spurious inlaid silver mark reading "Shi Sou" on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with impressed and applique decoration; with localized areas of light blue on the surface, perhaps slip applied before firing
5th-3rd century BCEChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white slip ground. Probably from the Guantai kilns, near Handan, Hebei province.
12th centuryChineseWhite ware: porcelain with light blue glaze over molded an incised decoration. From the kilns at Punwŏn-ri, Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province.
19th centuryKoreanBlack basalt
18th centuryBritishPlaster
Terracotta
5th century BCEGreekPlaster
Enamelled ware: porcelain with yellow and green enamels applied on the biscuit over incised decoration, the interior and base with clear glaze; underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Zhengde nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th centuryChineseYellow-green glass
1st-3rd century CERoman