13th century
6.3 x 12.2 cm (2 1/2 x 4 13/16 in.)
Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: molded, light gray stoneware with cloudy celadon glaze and with appliqué legs. From the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province.
12th-13th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with grayish olive celadon glaze over applique decoration
12th-13th centuryChineseQingbai-type ware: off-white or gray stoneware with pale sky-blue glaze over applique decoration.
13th centuryChineseSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: molded light gray stoneware with grayish olive celadon glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray (or light grayish buff) stoneware with dark brown glaze suffused with buff markings. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChinese'Qingbai' ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over incised and carved decoration, the interior with appliqué containers, stylized sculpture, and leaf stems, the appliqué elements touched with iron-brown slip to add areas of localized color in firing. Probably from a kiln in Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in light and dark brown slips on a white slip ground; with maker's mark reading 'Wang Jia Zao' (Made [by the] Wang Family) brushed in underglaze dark brown slip on the underside.
12th-13th centuryChineseJizhou or Jizhou-type ware: white stoneware with clear glaze, the decoration incised and carved through the glaze before firing. Probably from the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province; possibly from the Linchuan kilns at Linchuan, Jiangxi province
13th centuryChinese