max.: H. 5 × W. 10.1 × D. 8.5 cm (1 15/16 × 4 × 3 3/8 in.)
'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 centuryChineseGray earthenware with incised decoration
2nd-3rd century CEChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over carved and incised decoration
12th centuryChineseGanzhou ware: light gray stoneware, the unglazed exterior with combed and applique decoration, the unglazed neck with beads of pearly white glaze to form the bosses, the interior with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Qili Ganzhou, Jiangxi province
13th-14th centuryChineseEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseGray earthenware with carved decoration
6th-7th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
19th centuryChineseMonochrome-glazed ware: pale pink earthenware with (partially degraded) lead-fluxed, clear glaze over white slip ground on the exterior; the pale blue splashes applied over the glaze in the twentieth century, using blue ink or pigment; with lead-fluxed, yellow glaze on the interior
8th centuryChineseCast bronze with olive-green patina; with inscription cast on the interior
14th-11th century BCEChineseExport blue-and-white ware, kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
16th-17th centuryChineseProbably Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over a full coating of white slip, the vertical ribs trailed in white slip
11th-12th centuryChineseGreen Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze
12th-13th centuryChinese