12th-14th century
Conical bowl covered all over, except for the base and small footring, witha chocolate0brown glaze. The inside walls of the bowl feature a spontaneously stylized depiction of a blossoming plum branch under a new moon by which pass small clouds, the designs spontaneously brushed in ash and buff slip atop the glaze before firing.
H. 4.6 x Diam. 13.5 cm (1 13/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Andrew Kahane--Oriental Art, New York Diane H. Schafer Collection, New York American private collection, Pennsylvania (purchased from a Chinese collector in Taiwan in the 1950s)
Terracotta
1st-2nd century CERomanPorcelain with transparent turquoise blue glaze over incised decoration; with incised underglaze mark on base reading "Da Qing Jiaqing nian zhi"
18th-19th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze with areas of purple; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseMonochrome glazed porcelain, Langyao red: porcelain with variegated copper red glaze
17th-18th centuryChineseExport blue-and-white ware, kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
16th-17th centuryChineseEaHarvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseJizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseWood
ChinesePale blue glass
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13th-14th centuryChinese