1279-1368
H. 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
Terracotta, white ground
5th century BCEGreekSilver
18th centuryBritishPale blue-green glass
1st-3rd century CERomanSplashed Jun ware: coarse gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
13th-14th centuryChineseCeramic
20th centuryGermanTerracotta; greenish clay, brown glaze
6th century BCEGreekAluminum food canister, inscribed in red fiber-tip ink, stamped, fat
20th centuryGermanNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Ziqiang buxi yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Room of Unceasing Self-Improvement) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChinesePlaster
Light gray stoneware with misfired (?) bluish glaze, now cloudy green glaze
14th-15th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with milky blue glaze suffused with one lavender splash (from applied copper filings)
13th-14th centuryChineseBlue-green glass
3rd century CERoman