Red clay with a smooth surface and small base ring, otherwise undecorated and unburnished. Lip is broken and there are two small chips in the body. Vase marked "Cyprus 1874".
33.6 x 6.6 cm (13 1/4 x 2 5/8 in.)
Bronze, leaded bronze handle
5th century BCEEtruscanGray earthenware with incised decor
ChineseRed-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze copper red; with underglaze cobalt blue circle on the base
18th centuryChineseVery pale blue glass
1st-3rd century CERomanSilver
17th centuryBritishNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Changchun shuwu yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Studio of Everlasting Spring) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseTerracotta
7th century BCEFaliscanSilverplate
20th centuryAmericanTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekSilver
18th centuryIrishJizhou or Jizhou-type ware: white stoneware with clear glaze, the decoration incised and carved through the glaze before firing. Probably from the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province; possibly from the Linchuan kilns at Linchuan, Jiangxi province
13th centuryChinese