3rd century BCE-1st century CE
actual: 5 x 17.8 cm (1 15/16 x 7 in.)
Terracotta
3rd century BCESouth ItalianUnderglazed, painted fritware
17th-18th centuryPersianSilver
18th centuryAmericanNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain, "famille noir" type: porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels
17th-19th centuryChinesePorcelain with an all-over coating of overglaze yellow enamel, the designs reserved in yellow against a red enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi"
16th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChineseSplashed Jun ware: coarse gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
13th-14th centuryChineseTerracotta
Minoan