c. 1931
10 x 10.8 cm (3 15/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
Terracotta
4th-1st century BCEGreekTerracotta, black ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianTerracotta
GreekImitation Wanli, "wucai" type ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
19th-20th centuryJapaneseGreen glass
2nd-4th century CERomanCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white slip ground under a clear glaze
13th-14th centuryChineseFritware with underglaze painted decoration
13th-14th centuryPersianGreen glass
1st-4th century CERoman"Soft Jun" ware: light gray stoneware with thick, crackled robin's-egg blue glaze
12th-14th centuryChineseTerracotta
RomanEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and overglaze yellow enamel over the reserved decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" reserved against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground within a double circle, the mark and double-circle picked out in yellow enamel
16th centuryChineseBronze
8th century BCEIranian