10.4 × 16.7 cm (4 1/8 × 6 9/16 in.)
Terracotta, black glaze
4th century BCEGreekBlack Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings painted in overglaze iron oxide. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChineseTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze. Recovered from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseSilver
AmericanBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the cartouches and plum branches reserved against a cobalt-blue ground
19th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over carved and incised decoration
12th centuryChinesePorcelain with all-over application of overglaze red enamel (probably added at a later date); with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within the hollow stem
16th centuryChineseSoft-paste porcelain with colorless glaze over incised decoration
19th centuryChineseHard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanBuff-colored earthenware painted with luster (silver and copper) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin
10th century