5.08 x 25.4 cm (2 x 10 in.)
Off-white stoneware with emerald-green enamel over white slip
18th-19th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChineseSancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChineseGray earthenware
3rd century BCE-1st century CEChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Ziqiang buxi yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Room of Unceasing Self-Improvement) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base base before firing
15th centuryChineseEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware covered all over with white slip, the floral decoration incised and the patterned background stamped into the white slip ground, all under a clear glaze
10th-11th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels
16th-17th centuryChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with dark brown glaze suffused with iridescent silvery flecks
19th centuryChinese