12th-14th century
6.9 x 17.9 cm (2 11/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Sotheby's, London
Ceramic
Chinese
Stoneware
20th centurySwedishJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the saggar made of coarse reddish buff firing clay. Probably from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseMarble
3rd millennium BCECycladicBronze
ChineseCeramic
18th centuryDutchGray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChinesePolychrome plaster
20th centuryMinoanJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze brown slip on a white slip ground, with details touched on the surface of the clear glaze in russet-brown slip and olive-green glaze in localized areas, the unglazed lowest portion finished with dark brown glaze
14th-17th centuryChineseTerracotta
Greek