2000 BCE-1550 BCE
Jug to the right in the image.
12.8 x 9.9 cm (5 1/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing; "Jianfu gong Sanyou xuan yong" (Palace of Established Happiness, used in the Veranda of Three Friends) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekSilver
18th centuryBritishLacquer on papier-mache
19th-20th centuryIslamicGlass
1st-2nd century CERomanInlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration inlaid in black and white slips
13th centuryKorean
Bizen-type ware; reddish stoneware with incised and combed decoration and with three bands of oxidized silver-foil embellishment
20th centuryJapaneseProto porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
5th-3rd century BCEChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseLacquer, black and red, with silver
ChinesePorcelain with incised and carved elements, decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and copper red, and celadon glaze in localized areas
19th centuryChinese