1500-1400 BCE
Top and shoulder: bands. Body: waves and bands. Third handle missing.
H. 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.)
Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseTranslucent grayish green jadeite with emerald green markings; stone of Burmise origin
18th-19th centuryChineseBuff clay with dark brown painted decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEIranianTerracotta
Silver
19th centuryBritish, EnglishTerracotta, burnished black ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Probably from a kiln at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.
15th centuryChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with black glaze
18th-19th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved and combed decoration, the interior coated with a thin layer of underglaze white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th centuryChinese