H. 17.15 x Diam. 7.62 cm (6 3/4 x 3 in.)
Yaozhou "moon white" (yuebai) ware: very light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over thin coating of white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th centuryChineseEarthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze
11th-12th centuryChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th millennium BCEChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the rim with clear glaze over white slip
11th-12th centuryChineseWhite nephrite
18th centuryChineseTransitional blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with incised borders at top and bottom
17th centuryChineseYue ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.
10th-11th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 5 (wu) inscribed inside the footring before firing and incised on the base after firing
15th centuryChineseJizhou-type ware, probably Tushan ware: light gray stoneware with variegated brown and amber glazes over a white slip ground, the lower portion of the bottle coated with dark russet slip. Probably from the kilns at Tushan, Sichuan province.
12th-14th centuryChinesePorcelain with incised decoration under a pale light blue glaze with incised mark reading "Yongle nian zhi" on the base
19th centuryChineseSancai ("three color") ware: pinkish white earthenware with lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splahed clear glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior, the (slightly degraded) glazes over a white-slip ground
8th centuryChineseGray earthenware with traces of cold-painted pigments
3rd-1st century BCEChinese