H. 29.21 cm (11 1/2 in.)
Earthenware with brown lead glaze
1st-3rd century CEChinesePale greenish white nephrite
19th centuryChineseDing ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th-12th 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 centuryChineseSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseExport blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
19th centuryChinesePossibly Xing ware; porcelain with incised and appliqué decoration. Possibly made at the Xing kilns, Hebei province.
10th-11th centuryChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, green and yellow enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base
16th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseRed-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze copper red; with underglaze cobalt blue circle on the base
18th centuryChinese