c. 500 BCE
Interior: Nude youth running to left looking back to right. He wears a vine wreath in his hair (outline reserved) in applied purple, now faded. The vase is entirely covered with a fair black glaze except for the border of the interior medallion, edge of foot and panel under each handle.
H. 7 x diam. 17.4 cm (2 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
Silver
18th centuryBritishPorcelain with an all-over coating of overglaze yellow enamel, the designs reserved in yellow against a red enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi"
16th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with bluish-black glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseInlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration inlaid in black and white slips
12th centuryKoreanLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with grayish olive celadon glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
3rd century BCESouth ItalianTurned bronze with incised decor
9th-10th centuryVietnameseTerracotta
9th-8th century BCEGreekTerracotta
GreekSilver, fruitwood
18th centuryBritishTemmoku-type ware; light gray stoneware with wax-resist decoration, the glazed areas with black glaze covered with iron-brown slip glaze
20th centuryJapanese