18th century
29.53 cm (11 5/8 in.)
Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration incised and carved into an all-over coating of white slip, the whole piece covered with a clear, transparent glaze
12th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: medium gray stoneware coated all over with white slip, the decoration carved through the slip to reveal the underlying darker body, the exterior of the jar further covered with celadon glaze, the interior left unglazed; Made at Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province
10th centuryChineseYellow nephrite with brown markings
18th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
13th-14th centuryChinesePale greenish white nephrite
19th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseEarthenware with impressed decor
6th-5th century BCEChineseQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
13th centuryChineseTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekHard-paste decorated with polychrome enamels
18th-19th centuryGermanImitation Jun ware: porcelain with variegated purple glaze. Perhaps made at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.
18th centuryChinese