5th century
10.3 cm (4 1/16 in.)
Enameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseTerracotta
EtruscanAlabaster
3rd millennium BCEEgyptianCreamware with enamel decoration
18th centuryEnglishOnda ware: light gray stoneware with pale olive glaze over brush-applied white slip enlivened with chatter marks on the interior and over incised bowstring lines on the exterior; with three- (or four-?) character stamp of the Onda kilns impressed on the base
21st centuryJapaneseCopper
19th centuryOttomanEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt-blue
15th centuryVietnameseMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with clear glaze over applied powdered cobalt and with traces of overglaze gold enamel decoration; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle on the base
18th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with sky blue glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip
12th centuryChineseMarbled earthenware with amber colored lead glaze
8th-9th centuryChinese