12th-13th century
H. 7.9 x Diam. 20.1 cm (3 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Christie's, New York in September 2003 sale (Lot 243) Formerly in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Breece III, Evanston, Illinois Formerly in the collection of James Godfrey, Charlottesville, Virginia Formerly in the collection of Jan Hellner Collection, Stockholm
Terracotta
5th century BCEGreekBrass
15th centuryGermanLight gray stoneware with incised, combed, and openwork decoration and with traces of natural ash glaze
5th-6th centuryKoreanLacquer on wood
17th-19th centuryJapaneseStoneware with greenish gray glaze
14th-15th centuryChineseSilver with repousse decoration picked out in parcel gilding
7th-8th centuryChineseJizhou ware: ivory white stoneware with decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze, the reserved designs covered with clear glaze over slip-painted details, selected details incised through the brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseFritware, black painted under turquoise glaze (some modern over paint inside)
12th-13th centurySyrianHard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration and gold
18th centuryGermanTerracotta, with dark red stripe across diameter
1st century CERomanEarthenware with lead fluxed glaze
6th-7th centuryChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreek