1500-1100 BCE
Cypriote Late Bronze Age. Nearly spherical bodies on high flaring bases; long upward tapering necks with funnel shaped mouths. Handle from rim to shoulder.
11.3 x 4.4 cm (4 7/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
From Heliopolis, Egypt
Light gray stoneware with incised, combed, stamped, and openwork decoration and with localized areas of natural ash glaze
5th-6th centuryKoreanTerracotta; pale yellow clay with slip
7th-6th century BCEGreekTerracotta
Terracotta; buff clay, red glaze
8th century BCEGreekDark green nephrite with black inclusions (so-called spinach-green jade); with spurious mark reading 'Qianlongnian zhi' in seal-script characters
19th centuryChineseGray stoneware with combed, stamped, and openwork decoration. Reportedly recovered in Haep'yŏng-myŏn, Sŏnsan-gun, North Kyŏngsang province, in 1959.
5th centuryKoreanTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekLead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick red earthenware with emerald green, lead-fluexed glaze
1st-2nd century CEChineseDing ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseStone
3rd millennium BCESumerianEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with ogival panels decorated with overglaze polychrome enamels, the panels reserved against an underglaze cobalt powder blue ground emblazoned with designs painted in overglaze gold enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChinese