33.66 x 6.99 cm (13 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome and gold enamels
16th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron oxide
12th centuryChineseMottled dark green nephrite (so-called spinach-green jade)
19th centuryChineseJizhou ware: ivory white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
18th centuryChineseLacquer, black and red, with silver
ChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChinesePorcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red and green enamels, probably added at a later date
16th-17th centuryChineseYue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze
9th-10th centuryChineseDark green nephrite with black inclusions (so-called spinach-green jade); with spurious mark reading 'Qianlongnian zhi' in seal-script characters
19th centuryChineseOff-white stoneware with combed and gouged decoration with traces of ash glaze
3rd century BCEChinese