H. 5.72 x Diam. 15.24 cm (2 1/4 x 6 in.)
Earthenware with impressed decoration
5th millennium BCEChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with black glaze and traces of overglaze gold enamel decoration
17th-18th centuryChineseCeladon ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.
6th-7th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
12th centuryChinesePainted lacquerware: brown and reddish orange lacquer over wooden core
3rd-1st century BCEChineseEnameled ware: porcelain with decoration reserved against an overglaze red enamel ground, the reserved elements embellished with green and black enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBrown-glazed ware: light gray stoneware with lustrous dark-brown glaze; with recently associated pewter cover
ChineseGray earthenware with traces of cold-painted pigment
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with sky blue glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip
12th centuryChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain, "qingbai" type: porcelain with pale, sky-blue glaze over molded and incised decor; with incised mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in gold enamels a red enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Chang Chun Yong Bao" within a double circle on the base, the mark and double circle arranged to simulate a Chinese coin.
16th-17th centuryChinese