Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseTerracotta
Fritware painted with blue (cobalt) and brown (chromium) under clear alkali glaze
17th centuryJasperware
18th centuryBritishPale grayish white nephrite; with mark on the base reading 'Qianlong Yu Zhi' in seal-script characters
18th centuryChineseTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekCarved rhinoceros horn
17th centuryChineseReddish earthenware covered in white slip, carved, and painted with green (copper), yellow (iron), and dark brown (manganese) under clear lead glaze (with zinc and barium)
20th centuryTerracotta
GreekSue ware: gray surfaced reddish-brown stoneware with incised decoration
7th-8th centuryJapaneseSilver, fruitwood
18th centuryBritishOriginally a pale greenish-white nephrite changed to a creamy-buff because of burning (so-called chicken-bone jade); the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan
16th-17th centuryChinese