6th century
Terracotta
7th century BCEEtruscanNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th centuryChinese
Copper alloy
1st century CETerracotta; black gloss
5th century BCEGreekBuff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips, the surface burnished before firing. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
3rd millennium BCEChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt blue hallmark reading "Yuyi Chunyitang" within a double square on the base
18th-19th centuryChinesePale green glass
1st-3rd century CERomanHard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels
18th-19th centuryGermanLacquer on papier-mache
19th-20th centuryIslamicTerracotta
1st century CERomanJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChineseSilver
19th centuryBritish