5.08 x 25.4 cm (2 x 10 in.)
Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with incised decor, the surface burnished. Anyang type.
12th-10th century BCEChineseGray earthenware with cold painted decoration
2nd-1st century BCEChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved and combed decoration, the interior coated with a thin layer of underglaze white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th centuryChineseGray earthenware with traces of cold-painted pigment
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain; porcelain with pale cobalt-blue glaze, the rim finished with an application of iron-brown slip simulating a metal band; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base
18th-19th centuryChineseQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseRed earthenware
5th-3rd century BCEChineseEnamel
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