late 16th century
Diam. 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in.)
Ex-Collection: Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Morrill, Boston, MA
Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over appliqué decoration
4th century CEChineseDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the rim repaired with gold lacquer. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseCizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing to reveal the light gray body, the revealed body clay dressed with white glaze in localized areas
13th-14th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
18th centuryChineseTerracotta
2nd millennium BCEHurrianGray stoneware with cold-painted decoration over white gesso ground
7th-8th centuryChineseCeramic
ChineseWhite ware: glazed porcelain with incised mark reading "Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChineseGlass
6th century