5th century BCE
Bowl is broken and mended with one patch and a few small missing pieces. Concentric circles decorate inside and outside of bowl.
5.5 x 13 cm (2 3/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Cizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing. From the Ciyaobao kilns, Lingwu county, Ningxia Huizu Autonomous Region.
12th-13th centuryChineseJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseCast bronze with inlays of turquoise, sheet gold and silver, and copper wire
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseRaku ware: light gray earthenware with black glaze and with seal on base reading "Raku"
19th centuryJapaneseLight gray stoneware with incised and openwork decoration
5th-6th centuryKoreanReddish earthenware covered with slip, incised, and color-splashed under clear glaze
11th-12th centuryIslamicNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryAmericanWhite ware: porcelain with pale bluish-green glaze. Reportedly recovered from a tomb in Sŏngju, North Kyŏngsang province.
15th-16th centuryKoreanGlass
RomanBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" in a double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
2nd-1st millennium BCEChinese