H. 17.15 x Diam. 7.62 cm (6 3/4 x 3 in.)
Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, caramel-brown, and clear glazes over stamped decoration and with lead fluxed, pale yellow glaze on the feet. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
8th centuryChineseProto-porcelain ware: stoneware with natural ash glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseHorn
17th centuryChineseCast bronze
ChineseCizhou-type ware: earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base; “Ying tai Lan shi yong” (Ocean Terrace, used in the Orchid Room) inscription incised on base at a later date
15th centuryChinesePorcelain with blue and white glaze
19th centuryChineseQingbai-type ware: light gray stoneware, the upper portion with pale sky-blue glaze over applique molded decoration
13th-14th centuryChineseRed earthenware
2nd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChinese