1600-1300 BCE
H. 13.7 x Diam. 16.5 cm (5 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
Earthenware with cord impressed decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseGray earthenware
3rd century BCE-1st century CEChinesePale greenish white nephrite
18th-19th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised and carved
12th centuryChineseExport blue-and-white ware, kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
16th-17th centuryChineseGray earthenware with cold painted decoration
2nd-1st century BCEChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBronze
ChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide. Probably from the kilns at Zibo, Shandong province.
12th-13th centuryChineseSancai ("three color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splashed clear glaze on the lip and exterior, the glazes slightly degraded
8th centuryChinese