c. 3000 BCE-2000 BCE
actual: 6.8 x 21.3 cm (2 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Terracotta; reddish clay with fine black glaze
5th century BCEGreekSilverplate
20th centuryAmericanPale blue glass
1st-2nd century CERomanCast bronze; with dedicatory inscription cast on vessel floor
11th-10th century BCEChineseBronze
12th-13th centuryKorean
Brown enamelled bowl with lump of mortar-like substance
20th centuryGermanTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekMetal
19th centuryBritishJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChineseBiscuit porcelain with decoration painted in green, aubergine, turquoise, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th centuryChineseCarved jade
18th centuryOttomanCeramic
18th centuryGerman