c. 2500 BCE-2300 BCE
actual: 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.)
Blue ware: porcelain with clear glaze over incised characters, the inscribed vessel washed with cobalt-blue before glazing. From the kilns at Punwŏn-ri, Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province.
19th centuryKoreanTerracotta, with dark red stripe across diameter
1st century CERomanCast bronze
13th-12th century BCEChineseMetal
20th centuryGermanRed earthenware
2nd millennium BCEChineseWhite stoneware with pale celadon glaze over incised, molded, and appliqué decoration
11th-13th centuryVietnameseTinned copper
17th centuryPersianTerracotta
7th century BCEGreekSlip-painted celadon ware: light gray celadon with celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip
12th centuryKoreanReddish earthenware covered in white slip and painted with brownish black (chromium, iron, and manganese) and blue (cobalt) under clear alkali glaze
19th-20th centuryTerracotta; buff clay, red glaze
8th century BCEGreek