probably 11th century
7.4 x 20.9 cm (2 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Shirley Nye, New York, NY, gift to HUAM
Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale blue glaze over carved and incised decoration
11th-12th centuryChineseMottled grayish white nephrite
11th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th centuryChineseRusset Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChineseDing ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the unglazed rim originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns in Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
10th-11th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with dark brown glaze
11th centuryChineseBlack Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings painted in overglaze iron oxide. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with carved vertical flutes under pale whitish gray glaze, the glaze over a coating of white slip applied to the full exterior and the upper portion of the interior. Probably made at the Cizhou kilns at Cixian, near Handan, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChinesePerhaps Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. Perhaps from the Yaozhou kilns, Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
10th-11th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with lustrous clear glaze over white slip ground, the glaze enlivened with three emerald-green splashes
10th-11th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin and purplish brown slip on the lower portion. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChinese