Strainer from a water jar of unglazed earthenware, decorated with a perforated circular design: found in Egypt, Old Cairo, Coptic, 12th - 13th century

Strainer from a water jar, of unglazed earthenware, decorated with a perforated circular design: found in Egypt, Old Cairo, Coptic, 12th - 13th century

Strainer from a water jar, of unglazed earthenware, decorated with a perforated circular design: found in Egypt, Old Cairo, Coptic, 12th - 13th century

Strainer from a water jar, of unglazed earthenware, decorated with a perforated circular design: found in Egypt, Old Cairo, Coptic, 12th - 13th century

Fragment of a water jar (habb), unglazed earthenware with elaborate openwork border of seated dignitaries attending a banquet: ASIA, West Asia, Iraq, 13th century

Water jar of coarse red micaceous pottery, with corded ornament with four pendant loops in relief around neck: North America, Jicarilla, South West Area, from New Mexico

Water jar of buff pottery with exterior painted in brown and black on white slip with floral ornament in zones: North America, USA, New Mexico, Pueblo of San Juan

Water jar of buff pottery with exterior painted in brown and black with figures of deer and birds in zones: North America, USA, New Mexico, Pueblo of Zuni

Oblate water jar of red pottery: Eastern Africa, Zimbabwe, Mashonaland

Porcelain water jar (mizusashi) with panels painted in underglaze blue with cranes over waves, cockerel and hen, plovers and crabs between finely sculpted masks on an incised geometric ground, Hirado Mikawachi ware: Japan, Hizen province, Mikawachi, c. 1800

Water jar and cover, white bisque porcelain, with dragons and waves in low relief: Japan, 1840 - 1890

Spherical water jar of porcelain with underglaze blue decoration of carp, lion-dogs and children within roundels, with lid bearing a moulded finial of carp amid spume, Hirado Mikawachi ware: Japan, Hizen province, Mikawachi, 1780 - 1880

Water-jar (mizusashi) of unglazed porcelain, with applique crabs and inscription of Chinese poems, and lid with crab-shaped knop, Hirado Mikawachi ware: Japan, Hizen province, Mikawachi, possibly 1880s

Water jar (mizusashi) of porcelain decorated with low-relief moulded cranes, symbolizing longevity, in reserve against an underglaze blue ground, Hirado Mikawachi ware, with black lacquered lid: Japan, Hizen province, Mikawachi, early 1700s