9th-10th century
actual: 8.75 cm (3 7/16 in.)
Underglaze slip-painted earthenware
9th-11th centuryPersianDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseBlue-green glass
Graeco-RomanJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with pale bluish green celadon glaze over a thin white-slip ground
10th-11th centuryChineseSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchTerracotta with lustrous black paint
4th century BCESouth ItalianMolded fritware covered with turquoise (copper) alkali glaze opacified with tin
13th centuryStoneware
20th centurySwedishTerracotta
GreekTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekSilver, fruitwood
18th centuryBritish