H. 5.72 x Diam. 15.24 cm (2 1/4 x 6 in.)
Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th millennium BCEChineseEnameled procelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze green and black enamels and with molded mountain and wave pattern; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Tongzhi nian zhi" on the base
19th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChinesePale greenish white nephrite
18th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain (possibly biscuit porcelain) with emerald green enamel
19th centuryChineseGray earthenware with cold-painted pigments
2nd century BCEChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with carved vertical flutes under pale whitish gray glaze, the glaze over a coating of white slip applied to the full exterior and the upper portion of the interior. Probably made at the Cizhou kilns at Cixian, near Handan, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseCizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze over white slip, the decoration incised into the glaze before firing to reveal the white slip. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.
16th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain, "famille noir" type: porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels
17th-19th centuryChineseEarthenware with incised and applique decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseNorthern Yue-type ware: light gray stoneware with olive-hued celadon glaze over relief and appliqué decoration, the glaze streaked with blue
6th-7th centuryChinese