4th century BCE
Metal
20th centuryGermanBronze
5th century BCEGreekSilver
18th centuryBritishEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
18th centuryChineseCizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze over white slip, the decoration incised into the glaze before firing to reveal the white slip. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.
16th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryAmericanTerracotta
6th century BCELydianSlip-painted celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip
13th centuryKoreanPlaster
White stoneware with clear glaze over molded decoration and stylized Chinese character "shou" (longevity) impressed into the flat floor; the rim banded with metal
17th-18th centuryChinese