700-650 B.C.
Clay pale yellow. Black to brown decoration, abraded. Nick on lip. The lip has been mended. Modern: a splotch of paint running diagonally across and under lip.
6.7 x 6.7 cm (2 5/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Terracotta
3rd millennium BCEMinoanTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekCizhou ware: light gray stoneware covered all over with white slip, the floral decoration incised and the patterned background stamped into the white slip ground, all under a clear glaze
10th-11th centuryChineseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
GreekSilver
17th centuryBritishMisfired Jian ware: dark brown stoneware with misfired glaze turned olive
12th-13th centuryChineseCast bronze with a cast inscription on vessel floor
10th-13th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoraiton painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Longqing nian zao" within a double circle on the base
16th centuryChineseTerracotta
RomanHard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration
18th centuryGerman