6.5 x 10.2 cm (2 9/16 x 4 in.)
Guan ware: dark gray stoneware with lightly crackled, light grayish blue glaze. From the guan kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province
12th-13th centuryChineseCeramic
ChineseBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseGray earthenware with buff-colored surface
3rd millennium BCEChineseGray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseLongquan celadon ware: pale gray stoneware body with a lustrous, bluish green celadon glaze. From the Longquan kilns in Zhejiang province
12th-13th centuryChineseCeramic
ChineseGray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseCeramic
ChineseRu ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluish celadon glaze. From the Ru kilns, Henan province
12th centuryChineseRu 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 centuryChineseWhite earthenware with molded and incised decor
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