ANCIENT PYXIS BOUGHT AT ATHENS

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Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Cizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze over white slip, the decoration incised into the glaze before firing to reveal the white slip. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Light gray stoneware with incised and openwork decoration and with traces of natural ash glaze

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White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green

Glass, enamel, nickel silver, and plastic

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Silver and ebony

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Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware covered all over with white slip, the floral decoration incised and the patterned background stamped into the white slip ground, all under a clear glaze