Cast bronze with dark green, speckled patina; with a 12-character dedication inscribed on both the vessel floor and lid interior
9th century BCEChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze polychrome and gold enamels; with an overglaze red enamel Tibetan (?) mark within a double square on the base
19th centuryChineseGrayish white jadeite with emerald green markings
18th-19th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with underglaze decoration painted in dark brown slip on a white-slip ground
ChineseMottled buff and olive-green nephrite, dimly translucent at the edges
3rd century BCE-1st century CEChineseBronze
ChineseEarthenware
2nd-1st millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseEarthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration in overglaze iron oxide
12th centuryChinese'Qingbai' ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over incised and carved decoration, the interior with appliqué containers, stylized sculpture, and leaf stems, the appliqué elements touched with iron-brown slip to add areas of localized color in firing. Probably from a kiln in Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseCast bronze with patina and encrustations; with inscription cast on the interior
14th-11th century BCEChinese