H. 5.08 cm x Diam. 20.32 cm (2 x 8 in.)
Ding ware: porcellaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns in Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseProto porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
5th-4th century BCEChineseLacquer, black and red, with silver
ChineseDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the rim repaired with gold lacquer. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseWood
ChineseSilver with incised decoration
14th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with carved vertical flutes under pale whitish gray glaze, the glaze over a coating of white slip applied to the full exterior and the upper portion of the interior. Probably made at the Cizhou kilns at Cixian, near Handan, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseEarthenware with cord-impressed decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze coral-red, green, and black enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" on the base
19th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a circle on the base
18th centuryChineseCast bronze with traces of malachite and copper-wire inlay
5th century BCEChineseLead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with degraded lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze
1st-3rd century CEChinese