17th cent. - 18th cent.
5.1 x 30.1 x 15.5 cm (2 x 11 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
Purchased from James Soong, San Francisco, in March 1988.
Terracotta; glazed
9th-8th century BCEGreekTerracotta, traces of paint
South ItalianSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseBuff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
3rd millennium BCEChineseSterling
20th centuryAmericanKohiki type: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over brush-applied white slip, the slip carefully applied to form hard-edged geometric patterns, with artist’s mark impressed on the base
21st centuryJapaneseSilver
18th centuryBritishVery pale blue-green glass
1st-3rd century CERomanPlaster
Stoneware with grayish green glaze
14th-15th centuryThaiGray earthenware
3rd century BCE-1st century CEChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreek