c. 650-600 BCE
Nautilus shell and silver, parcel-gilt
17th centuryGermanGray earthenware
2nd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekHard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels
18th-19th centuryGermanBronze
4th-3rd century BCEGreekSilver
17th centuryBritishJian ware: gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseCast bronze; with integrally cast inscription inside the footring
13th-12th century BCEChineseMetal
20th centuryGermanLight gray stoneware, the jar and cover with kiln-darkened surfaces, the jar also with localized areas of natural ash glaze, the natural glaze droplets now disintegrated and flaked away
5th-6th centuryKoreanSilver
18th centuryAmerican