Enameled biscuit porcelain: molded biscuit porcelain with decoration painted in aubergine enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double-circle on the base

16th-17th centuryChinese

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Meat Dish

Thomas Robins, 1811-1812

Silver

19th centuryBritish

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Elongated Vase with Everted Lip, Lightly Flaring Foot, and Stylized Floral Decor

Unknown Artist, 18th century

White ware: porcelain with glaze over lightly incised decoration

18th centuryChinese

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Bird-shaped jar

Unknown Artist, Banshan phase, c. 2650-2300 BCE

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration

3rd millennium BCEChinese

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Toy Two-handled Cup

Thomas Brydon, 1707-1708

Silver

18th centuryBritish

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Shouldered Beaker

Unknown Artist, 1500-1350 BCE

Terracotta

2nd millennium BCEHurrian

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Apothecary Jar (with Cover)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Glass

19th centuryGerman

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Gnathian Bottle

Unknown Artist, 400 BCE

Terracotta

4th-3rd century BCEGreek

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Small Tea Bowl with Indented White Lip and Decoration of Crescent Moon and Blossoming Plum Branch

Unknown Artist, 12th-13th century

Nanfeng ware: light gray stoneware with decoration reserved against the medium brown glaze, the rim and reserved designs with clear glaze over white slip. From the Baishe kilns in Nanfeng county, Jiangxi province

12th-13th centuryChinese

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Coffee Pot for "Four-piece Tea/Coffee Service"

Thomas Fletcher, c. 1813

Silver, ebony

19th centuryAmerican

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Circular Oil Drip Plate (Aburazara) with Decoration of Gourd, Vines, and Insect

Unknown Artist, Mid Edo period, circa 1720

Ceramic

18th centuryJapanese