White stoneware with appliqué handle and feet and with dark brown glaze on the exterior and clear glaze on the interior. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.
8th-9th centuryChineseBlack earthenware
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChineseMonochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze coral-red enamel; with overglaze red enamel mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseBuff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
3rd millennium BCEChineseChangsha ware: light gray stoneware with three molded appliqué decorative elements, the ewer coated with olive-toned celadon glaze over a thin coat of white slip, the appliqué elements further splashed with caramel glaze. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.
9th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseQianlong-style molded porcelain: porcelain with molded decoration under very pale blue qingbai-type glaze
18th-19th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
11th-12th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with "anhua" decoration painted in white slip on the interior cavetto and with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" on the base
20th centuryChineseCast bronze; with inscription cast on the vessel floor
13th-11th century BCEChinese