H. 2.86 x Diam. 19.69 cm (1 1/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware
6th millennium BCEChineseRed-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze copper red; with underglaze cobalt blue circle on the base
18th centuryChinesePorcelain with blue and white glaze
17th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels
19th centuryChineseStoneware with celadon glaze
6th centuryChinesePainted Jizhou ware: very light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
13th-14th centuryChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip; the lip banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseGray earthenware with cold painted decoration
2nd-1st century BCEChinesePainted lacquerware: brown and reddish orange lacquer over wooden core
3rd-1st century BCEChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" below the lip
17th-19th centuryChinese