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.)
Gray earthenware with traces of natural ash glaze
JapaneseDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseImitation Jun ware: porcelain with variegated purple glaze. Perhaps made at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.
18th centuryChineseBronze
1st millennium BCE-1st millenium CEGraeco-RomanEarthenware with monochrome green glaze
18th centuryPersianTemmoku-inspired ware; light gray stoneware with impressed decoration inlaid with white slip under clear glaze, the floor of the bowl covered with black glaze partially washed with overglaze brown slip
20th centuryJapaneseGray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseTransitional blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
17th centuryChineseTerracotta
6th-5th century BCEGreekCeramic
20th centuryGermanBronze
ChineseMonochrome ware: porcelain with cobalt blue glaze; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing Nian Zhi" within the hollow stem
16th centuryChinese