Neolithic to Shang period, 2000-1000 BCE
H. 21 x W. 17 cm (8 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.)
Blackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChinesePainted funerary ware: gray earthenware with cold-painted red pigments on a white gesso ground.
ChineseBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseGray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseGuan ware: dark gray stoneware with light grayish blue glaze. From the guan kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.
12th-13th centuryChineseGray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseBlackened dark gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware body with grayish celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province
13th-14th centuryChineseDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with pale yellow glaze
11th-12th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware body with lightly crackled celadon glaze. From the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province
13th-14th centuryChineseBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChinese