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 BCEChineseCeramic
ChinesePainted funerary ware: gray earthenware with cold-painted red pigments on a white gesso ground.
ChineseCeramic
ChineseGray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseLow-fired gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseLow-fired blackened gray and buff earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseCeramic
ChineseProbably Ru ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluishgreen glaze, the exterior glaze with white to buff cloudiness due either to under firing or to burial (in the waste heap at the kiln site). Probably from the Ru kilns, Henan province
11th centuryChineseLongquan celadon ware: molded, pale gray stoneware with lightly crackled, transparent, bluish green celadon glaze. From the Longquan kilns in Zhejiang province
12th-13th centuryChinese