c. 800-600 BCE
36.8 cm (14 1/2 in.)
Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze and overglaze decoration
4th century CEChinese
Light 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 centuryJapaneseSilver with repousse decoration picked out in parcel gilding
7th-8th centuryChineseTerracotta
3rd century CERomanBuff-colored earthenware painted with luster (silver and copper) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin
10th centuryNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseTerracotta
4th century BCESouth ItalianTerracotta
ItalicTerracotta, handmade
5th-4th century BCESouth ItalianTerracotta
2nd-3rd century CERomanTerracotta, wheel-made
6th century BCEEtruscanBrick red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze
14th-15th centuryChinese