c. 499 BCE-323 BCE
actual: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.)
Punch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on the white-slip ground. Made near Kongju, at the foot of Mount Kyeryong, South Ch'ungch'ŏng province.
16th centuryKoreanTerracotta
2nd millennium BCEHurrianYellow nephrite
18th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark on base reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
19th-20th centuryJapaneseCarved rhinoceros horn
16th centuryChineseIncised celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration
12th centuryKoreanTerracotta; reddish clay, black paint
6th century BCEGreekNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base; “Ying tai Lan shi yong” (Ocean Terrace, used in the Orchid Room) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseMottled grayish white nephrite
11th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze
10th-11th centuryChinesePale olive-green glass
2nd-5th century CERoman