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
"Wucai" (five-color) ware, of so-called "kinrande" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome and gold enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Fu Gui Jia Qi" on the base
16th centuryChineseTerracotta with green-blue glaze
3rd-7th centurySasanianMarble
3rd millennium BCECycladicTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekTerracotta
MoroccanSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchSilver
18th centuryBritishBlack earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEnameled 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 centuryChineseCizhou-type lead-glazed ware: brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze over an all-over coating of white slip that has been incised and carved to create the decoration
12th-13th centuryChineseWhite ware: porcellaneous white stoneware with white glaze. Reportedly recovered in Chinju, South Kyŏngsang province.
17th-18th centuryKorean