stand max.: H. 6.1 × W. 12.3 × D. 11.5 cm (2 3/8 × 4 13/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
Proto-porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
8th-7th century BCEChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base base before firing
15th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
19th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over molded and carved decoration
12th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze 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 centuryChineseEarthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze
17th-20th centuryChineseDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseStoneware with greenish gray glaze
14th-15th centuryChineseWhite earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with sky-blue glaze over mold-impressed decoration; the underglazed rims originally bound with metal. Probably from the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
15th centuryChinese