date unknown
L. 2.5 cm (1 in.)
Blackened dark gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseLow-fired blackened gray earthenware, the surface burnished before firing
3rd millennium BCEChineseGuan 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 centuryChinesePossibly Ru ware: light gray stoneware body with bluish celadon glaze. Possibly from the Ru kilns, Henan province
11th-12th centuryChineseBlackened buff earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseCeramic
ChinesePainted funerary ware: gray earthenware with cold-painted red pigments on a white gesso ground.
ChineseBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseBlackened buff and gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseLow-fired blackened gray and buff earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChinesePainted funerary ware: gray earthenware with cold-painted red pigments on a white gesso ground.
ChineseRu 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