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.)
Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over combed, molded, and openwork decoration
12th-13th centuryChinesePale yellow-brown glass
3rd-7th centuryRomanSilver
18th centuryBritishMonochrome enamelled ware: porcelain with yellow enamel applied on the biscuit over incised decoration, the base with clear glaze; spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark on base reading "Hongzhi nian zhi"
17th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with mark reading "Un Hyŏn" ("Cloud Hill") painted in underglaze cobalt blue on the base; the inscription perhaps is a reference to the palace in which the Prince Regent lived from 1864 to 1873. Made at the official kilns in Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province, perhaps in Punwŏn-ri.
19th centuryKoreanWhite jadeite with emerald green markings; the stone of Burmese origin
19th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryIrishTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekMonochrome blue ware: porcelain with cobalt-blue glaze over incised decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing Nian Zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th centuryChineseTerracotta
GreekCeramic
16th centuryPersian