2100-1500 BCE
High-standing bird with ridged back, fan-shaped tail, small neck and head. Loop handle and neck with flaring rim at center of back. Bird stands on two feet with rounded bottoms and rocks slightly back and forth.
H. 17 x diam. 19 cm (6 11/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Punch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration lightly brushed in white slip
16th centuryKoreanCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white slip ground under a clear glaze
13th-14th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th-19th centuryChineseWhite jadeite with emerald green markings; the stone of Burmese origin
19th centuryChineseTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseSilver
17th centuryBritishEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze yellow, green, and black enamels on the upper portion and the lower portion with an underglaze cobalt powder blue ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on base
17th-18th centuryChineseMetal
20th centuryGermanCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in light and dark brown slips on a white slip ground; with maker's mark reading 'Wang Jia Zao' (Made [by the] Wang Family) brushed in underglaze dark brown slip on the underside.
12th-13th centuryChineseGray stoneware. Reportedly recovered near Hyŏnp'ung-myŏn, Talsŏng-gun, near Kyŏngju, North Kyŏngsang province, in 1962.
6th-7th centuryKorean