9.8 × 17.3 cm (3 7/8 × 6 13/16 in.)
Pale blue-green glass
1st-2nd century CERomanJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the rim with clear glaze over white slip
11th-12th centuryChineseExport enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze blue, black, and gold enamels
20th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishPale yellow-green glass
1st-3rd century CERomanHard paste porcelain with feldspathic glaze
19th centuryGermanNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base; “Ying tai Lan shi yong” (Ocean Terrace, used in the Orchid Room) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseSilver
18th-19th centuryFrenchCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseSilver
18th centuryFrench