3rd millennium BCE
Round bottom. Some of exterior is abraded. Interior is undecorated. Small chips in rim. Exterior has band of circles around bottom, with large sections of vertical lines radiating outward. Ring of lines at rim. Incisions on spout. Red incised, incisions may have had white fill.
8 x 12.6 cm (3 1/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
Silver
18th centuryFrenchEnameled ware: porcelain with incised decoration and with an even coating of overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Yongzheng nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
18th centuryChineseInlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with dark (oxidized) celadon glaze over decoration inlaid in black and white slips. Reportedly recovered from a tomb in Yangp'yŏng, Kyŏnggi province, in 1962.
14th centuryKoreanCarved and slip-painted celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved and incised decoration, the carved decoration embellished with painting in white slip
13th centuryKoreanTerracotta
18th-16th century BCENear EasternLeaded bronze
2nd-3rd century CERomanFritware pierced and painted with black (chromium) under clear alkali glaze
17th-18th centuryTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekSilver
19th centuryAmericanNumbered 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 centuryChinesePale blue-green glass
1st century BCE-2nd century CERomanEnameled 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 centuryChinese