16th-17th century
H. 19.7 cm (7 3/4 in.)
Gray earthenware with incised and cold-painted decoration
3rd-2nd century BCEChineseLight gray stoneware with misfired (?) bluish glaze, now cloudy green glaze
14th-15th centuryChineseMonochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" on the base
17th-18th centuryChineseStoneware with lead fluxed glaze
6th-7th centuryChineseStoneware with turquoise-colored glaze; with molded inscription on the shoulder reading "Nei Fu Gong Yong"
ChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCast bronze with gray-green patina; with dedicatory inscription cast on vessel floor
11th-10th century BCEChineseBlack earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseCast bronze with a cast inscription on vessel floor
10th-13th centuryChineseGreen Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with carved vertical flutes under pale whitish gray glaze, the glaze over a coating of white slip applied to the full exterior and the upper portion of the interior. Probably made at the Cizhou kilns at Cixian, near Handan, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChinese