6.35 x 18.42 cm (2 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
Ceramic
ChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 5 (wu) inscribed inside the footring before firing and incised on the base after firing
15th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved, incised, and combed decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
11th-12th centuryChineseCeramic
ChineseProto-porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
11th-9th century BCEChineseYue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze
3rd century CEChineseEarthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseRed Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze and with traces of decoration in overglaze gold leaf
11th centuryChineseCeramic
ChineseEarthenware Earthenware
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseCast bronze
14th-17th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion dressed with dark purplish brown slip. Probably from the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.
12th centuryChinese