14th century
H. 1.8 x Diam. 12.8 cm (11/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
Ralph C. Marcove, M.D., New York purchased from Sotheby's or Christie's, New York (late 1980s).
Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown and transparent amber glazes. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChineseGuan- or Ge-type ware: light gray stoneware with crackled, grayish blue glaze
14th-17th centuryChineseQingbai-type ware: molded pale gray stoneware with pale sky-blue glaze
13th-14th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with milky blue glaze suffused with one lavender splash (from applied copper filings)
13th-14th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
14th centuryChineseCizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing
14th-15th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with dark brown glaze; recovered in the Philippines
13th-14th centuryChineseStoneware with blue-and-white glaze
14th-15th centuryChineseTranslucent greenish white and brown nephrite
14th-17th centuryChineseJian ware: medium gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze gold. Perhaps from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
13th-14th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with translucent celadon glaze over mold-impressed decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.
14th centuryChineseQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale blue glaze embellished with iron-brown splashes
13th-14th centuryChinese