H. 2.86 x Diam. 19.69 cm (1 1/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
Cold-painted funerary ware: molded light gray earthenware with cold-painted red pigment
1st-3rd century CEChineseWhite jadeite with emerald green markings; the stone of Burmese origin
19th centuryChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze suffused with buff markings and bluish white streaks. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Changchun shuwu yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Studio of Everlasting Spring) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseCizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with rust brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing. From the Ciyaobao kilns, Lingwu county, Ningxia Huizu Autonomous Region.
12th-13th centuryChineseEarthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseSplashed Jun ware: coarse gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
13th-14th centuryChineseGreen Jun ware: light gray stoneware with crazed celadon glaze
10th-13th centuryChineseBronze
ChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated dark purple and blue glaze with metal fitting at the mouth; originally a 'zhadou'-shaped flower pot with the Chinese numeral 10 (shi) impressed into the base before firing
15th centuryChinese