7.62 x 25.4 cm (3 x 10 in.)
Blackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseExport blue-and-white ware: porcelain with mold-impressed designs and decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
18th centuryChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
15th-16th centuryChineseLead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed, emerald-green glaze over molded decoration
1st-2nd century CEChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over decoration trailed in white slip
11th-12th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised, carved, and combed decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th centuryChineseBronze
ChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th centuryChineseEarthenware
2nd-1st millennium BCEChineseExport blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
18th centuryChineseGrisaille-enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in black and iron-red enamels; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Yongzheng nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th-20th centuryChinese