Sherd: Ceramic Fragment Found in East Africa

Metal, probably iron, possibly bronze

Low-fired gray earthenware

Probably 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

Blackened gray earthenware

Blackened buff and gray earthenware

Guan 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.

White earthenware with molded and incised decor

Ceramic

Blackened gray earthenware

Blackened gray earthenware

Ru 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

Blackened gray earthenware