H. 7.62 x Diam. 20.32 cm (3 x 8 in.)
Splashed Jun ware: coarse gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
13th-14th centuryChineseExport enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze blue, black, and gold enamels
20th centuryChineseMottled grayish white nephrite
11th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with black glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-brown slip
12th-13th centuryChineseNorthern russet ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze
11th-12th 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 centuryChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with black glaze
18th centuryChinesePorcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red and green enamels
17th centuryChineseEarthenware with applique and impressed decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with applique and impressed decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with clear glaze over applied powdered cobalt and with traces of overglaze gold enamel decoration; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle on the base
18th centuryChineseGray stoneware with cold-painted decoration over white gesso ground
7th-8th centuryChinese