1763
23.5 x 22.23 cm (9 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.)
Off-white stoneware with combed and gouged decoration with traces of ash glaze
3rd century BCEChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with black glaze
18th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with mottled iron-brown glaze over wax-resist brushwork decoration, with artist’s mark impressed on the base
21st centuryJapaneseGanzhou ware: light gray stoneware, the unglazed exterior with combed and applique decoration, the unglazed neck with beads of pearly white glaze to form the bosses, the interior with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Qili Ganzhou, Jiangxi province
13th-14th centuryChineseHammered brass, incised and inlaid with silver (now mostly lost)
14th centuryPersianCeramic
19th centuryPersianEnameled biscuit porcelain: porcelain with yellow enamel over incised decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base
16th centuryChineseDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over mold-impressed decoration, the unglazed rim bound with metal. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
12th-13th centuryChineseFritware
13th centuryPersianNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the exterior with russet skin, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th centuryChineseTerracotta
6th century BCEEtruscan