12th-early 13th century
4 x 19 cm (1 9/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Shirley Nye, New York, NY, gift to HUAM Shirley Nye purchased from Spink and Son, London
Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red and green enamels; swith purious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Xuande nian zao"
16th centuryChineseEarthenware with brown lead glaze
1st-3rd century CEChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseHard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels
18th centuryGermanCizhou ware: buff to light-gray stoneware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze, now much degraded.
12th centuryChineseTerracotta, bucchero
7th century BCEEtruscanEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th millennium BCEChineseIncised celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over lightly incised and combed decoration
11th-12th centuryKoreanKutani ware, Ao-Kutani type: porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamels
19th centuryJapaneseSilverplate
20th centuryAmerican