5th-4th century BCE
Cast bronze; with inscription cast on the vessel floor
13th-11th century BCEChineseCarved greenish yellow stone with caramel and reddish brown mottles (perhaps soapstone); dark brown stone stand
19th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChineseEarthenware with cold painted pigment
1st-3rd century CEChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
18th centuryChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip; the lip banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseGray earthenware with cold-painted pigments
2nd-1st century BCEChineseTerracotta
8th century BCEGreekWood
15th-16th centuryItalianSilver
17th-19th centuryFrenchTerracotta, polished black ware
3rd millennium BCEAnatolian