Yongzheng period, 1723-1735 or early 20th century
H. 18.2 x Diam. 6.6 cm (7 3/16 x 2 5/8 in.)
Provincial ware imitating porcelain: light gray stoneware with white slip and clear glaze over molded decoration
15th-16th centuryChineseEarthenware with brown lead glaze
1st-3rd century CEChineseWhite earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
11th-12th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion of the exterior dressed with black slip. From the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.
12th centuryChineseGray earthenware with traces of cold painted pigment
1st-3rd century CEChineseWhite stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
6th-7th centuryChineseEarthenware with impressed decoration
5th millennium BCEChineseCast bronze
11th-10th century BCEChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChinesePorcelain with blue enamel and gilding
18th-19th centuryChineseBiscuit porcelain with decoration painted in green, aubergine, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
17th centuryChinese