2000 -1000 BCE
6 x 12.5 x 8.8 cm (2 3/8 x 4 15/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Porcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with gold enamel painted on a red enamel ground added to the exterior at a later date; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" within a single circle on the base.
16th-17th centuryChinese"Soft Jun" ware: light gray stoneware with thick, crackled robin's-egg blue glaze
12th-14th centuryChineseGrayish-buff stoneware with opaque light grayish-blue glaze. Made in northeastern Korea, probably in Hoeryŏng-gun, possibly in Myŏngc'hŏn-gun, North Hamgyŏng province.
17th-19th centuryKoreanBrown-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze iron-brown slip. Reportedly recovered from a tomb in Ansŏng, Kyŏnggi province.
17th centuryKoreanTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekTerracotta
6th century BCEEtruscanGlass
19th centuryGermanNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Dongnuan ge louxia yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the East Heated Chamber, main floor) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChinesePewter
19th centuryGermanFritware
14th centuryPersianGilt silver
16th centuryGermanHard-paste porcelain with monochrome enamel decoration
18th centuryGerman