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.
Silver
18th centuryBritish26 oz./18 dwt.
17th centuryBritishEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChineseProto-porcelain ware: stoneware with natural ash glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseHigh-tin bronze
8th-9th centuryPersianEarthenware
2nd-1st millennium BCEChineseStoneware with glaze
21st centuryHard-paste porcelain with monochrome enamel decoration
18th centuryGerman