550-500 BCE
Overall: 13 x 10 cm (5 1/8 x 3 15/16 in.)
Terracotta
5th-3rd century BCEEtruscan (?)Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseGray earthenware
9th-7th century BCEChineseFritware
12th-13th centurySyrianOpaque black glass
2nd-3rd century CERomanPale greenish white nephrite
18th-19th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryAmericanTerracotta
7th-6th century BCEGreekBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the cartouches and plum branches reserved against a cobalt-blue ground
19th centuryChineseFritware incised, pierced, and painted with blue (cobalt) under clear alkali glaze
18th-20th centuryPorcelain with transparent turquoise blue glaze over incised decoration; with incised underglaze mark on base reading "Da Qing Jiaqing nian zhi"
18th-19th centuryChineseRed-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze copper red; with underglaze cobalt blue circle on the base
18th centuryChinese