500 BCE-450 BCE
12.5 x 4 cm (4 15/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Terracotta
2nd millennium BCEHurrianMonochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze coral-red enamel; with overglaze red enamel mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
5th-4th millennium BCEChineseGreen glass
3rd-4th century CEMeroiticHard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamel decoration, and gilding
18th centuryGermanTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekBronze, traces of silvering and possible gilding
5th century BCEGreekNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseDing ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseSilver, fruitwood
18th centuryBritish