Neolithic to Shang period, 2000-1000 BCE
H. 21 x W. 17 cm (8 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.)
Probably Ru ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluish green celadon glaze over carved vertical rib. Probably from the Ru kilns, Henan province
12th centuryChineseGuan ware: dark gray stoneware with lightly crackled, light grayish blue glaze on the exterior and with thinly applied, crackled light grayish green glaze on the interior. From the guan kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.
12th-13th centuryChineseBlackened dark gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseCeramic
ChineseBlackened gray erathenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseGray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChinesePossibly Ru ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluish celadon glaze. Possibly from the Ru kilns, Henan province
11th-12th centuryChineseCeramic
ChineseBlackened buff and gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseLow-fired gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseRu ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluish celadon glaze, the glaze with white to buff cloudiness due either to under firing or to burial (in the waste heap at the kiln site). From the Ru kilns, Henan province
12th centuryChinese