6th-7th century
13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
Bronze
ChineseLight gray stoneware with kiln-darkened surface
5th-6th centuryKoreanNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the rim with clear glaze over white slip
11th-12th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
2nd millennium BCEChineseImari celadon ware: fine-grained, light gray stoneware with decoration in cobalt blue under a celadon glaze
18th-19th centuryJapaneseSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChinesePainted Jizhou ware: very light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseMetal and painted plaster
20th centuryGermanVincennes porcelain
18th centuryFrenchMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with dark brown glaze suffused with iridescent silvery flecks
19th centuryChineseSilver
19th centuryAmerican