1279-1368
max.: H. 8.5 × Diam. 20.4 cm (3 3/8 × 8 1/16 in.) foot: Diam. 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
William B. Goldstein, M.D. purchased from Blitz Antiek en Kunsthandel / Blitz Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Terracotta
Graeco-RomanPorcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamel designs and yellow enamel ground added at a later date; with spurious overglaze black enamel mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base, the mark and double circle also covered in yellow enamel
16th-17th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved and incised decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th centuryChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin and purplish brown slip on the lower portion. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseCizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with rust brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing. From the Ciyaobao kilns, Lingwu county, Ningxia Huizu Autonomous Region.
12th-13th centuryChinesePlaster
Terracotta
1st millennium BCENear EasternCeramic
ChineseEnameled procelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze green and black enamels and with molded mountain and wave pattern; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Tongzhi nian zhi" on the base
19th centuryChineseEarthenware with brown glaze
14th-15th centuryThaiHard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamel decoration, and gilding
18th centuryGerman