Cast bronze; with integrally cast inscriptions on vessel floor and interior of cover
11th-10th century BCEChineseEnameled 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 centuryChineseLeaded bronze
6th century BCEGreekHard-paste porcelain with feldspathic glaze
GermanCeramic
20th centuryFrenchTerracotta
4th century CEGreekBrass
19th centuryFrenchSilver and wood
18th centuryAmericanTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekRaku ware: light grayish buff earthenware with clear glaze suffused with pink blushes; repairs with red and gold lacquers
18th centuryJapaneseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in red enamel on an overglaze yellow enamel ground, the interior with two pairs of underglaze cobalt-blue bowstring lines; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChinese