Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved, incised, and combed decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishCeramic
ChineseHammered brass, incised and inlaid with silver (now mostly lost)
14th centuryPersianFritware painted with blue (cobalt), turquoise (copper), and black (chromium) under clear alkali glaze
14th centuryTerracotta
GreekMarble, cinnabar
3rd millennium BCECycladicEarthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseJizhou ware: ivory white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChinese