c. 300 BCE
Large vessel. Side A: between handles, horizontal panel with bird, rosettes. Below: bird, fluted sections. Side B: fluted sections.
H. 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)
Terracotta
Gilt bronze
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseCopper alloy
1st-3rd century CERomanSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseTranslucent greenish white and brown nephrite
14th-17th centuryChineseSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchCast bronze with incrustations of green patina; with inscription on both the vessel floor and lid interior
11th century BCEChineseMonochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseHuangdao ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze with variegated light blue suffusions
8th-9th centuryChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreek