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.)
Pale blue glass
1st-3rd century CERomanEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th millennium BCEChineseCast bronze with gray-green patina; with dedicatory inscription cast on vessel floor
11th-10th century BCEChineseUnderglazed, painted fritware
13th-14th centuryPersianWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
7th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and with overglaze yellow enamel over the white decoration; underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" written on the base against a cobalt-blue ground
16th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 4 (si) inscribed on base before firing; "Chonghua gong jingqi xuan yong" (Palace of Double Glory, used in the Pavilion of Serene Repose) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChinesePale greenish white nephrite
18th centuryChineseTerracotta
Etching fired onto ceramic plate, then colored, glazed, and refired
19th centuryFrenchSilver
18th centuryBritishTerracotta
Cypriot