700-550 BCE
Slab handle and wide-flanged tubular spout.
14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
Monochrome-glazed ware: pale pink earthenware with (partially degraded) lead-fluxed, clear glaze over white slip ground on the exterior; the pale blue splashes applied over the glaze in the twentieth century, using blue ink or pigment; with lead-fluxed, yellow glaze on the interior
8th centuryChinesePainted Jizhou ware: very light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryAmericanCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in black slip on a white slip ground, all under a turquoise glaze
14th-15th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with localized areas of natural ash glaze over impressed decoration and marks from shells used as firing supports; with stamped potter's mark on the base
20th centuryJapaneseTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekPale greenish white nephrite
18th-19th centuryChineseTerracotta, gray-brown ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianSilver
17th centuryBritishGray earthenware
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseStone
3rd millennium BCENear EasternPlaster
17th-16th century BCEMinoan