first quarter 12th century
5 x 4.7 cm (1 15/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
Guan ware: dark gray stoneware with lightly crackled, light grayish blue glaze. From the guan kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.
12th-13th centuryChineseGuan ware: dark gray stoneware body with a misfired or degraded grayish green celadon glaze. From the Guan kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province
12th-13th centuryChineseGuan ware: dark gray stoneware with light grayish blue glaze. From the guan kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.
12th-13th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: pale gray stoneware body with a lustrous, bluish green celadon glaze. From the Longquan kilns in Zhejiang province
12th-13th centuryChineseRu ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluishceladon glaze over molded (or carved?) decoration. From the Ru kilns, Henan province
12th centuryChineseGuan ware: dark gray stoneware with light grayish blue glaze. From the guan kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province
12th-13th centuryChineseYue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised and carved decoration
11th-12th centuryChineseGuan ware: dark gray stoneware with lightly crackled, light grayish blue glaze. From the guan kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province
12th-13th centuryChineseGuan ware: dark gray stoneware body with a misfired or degraded bluish green celadon glaze on the interior and with lightly crackled, grayish green celadon glaze on the exterior. From the Guan kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province
12th-13th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: pale gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze. From the Longquan kilns in Zhejiang province
12th-13th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: pale gray stoneware with matte-surfaced, bluish green celadon glaze. From the Longquan kilns in Zhejiang province
12th-13th centuryChineseRu ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluish celadon glaze, the glaze with white to buff cloudiness due either to under firing or to burial (in the waste heap at the kiln site). From the Ru kilns, Henan province
12th centuryChinese