12th-14th century
4.5 x 11.6 cm (1 3/4 x 4 9/16 in.)
Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Sotheby's or Christie's, New York or London
Temmoku-type ware; light gray stoneware with wax-resist decoration, the glazed areas with black glaze covered with iron-brown slip glaze
20th centuryJapaneseTang/Five Dynasties white ware, possibly Xing ware: porcelain with clear glaze, the barbed rim knife-cut. Possibly from the Xing kilns, Hebei province.
9th-10th centuryChineseQingbai-type ware: porcelain or porcellaneous white stoneware with sky-blue glaze over carved and combed decoration. Probably from a kiln in Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChinese"Wucai" ware: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, green, and yellow enamels, the bowstring-line borders painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Probably from the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province
16th-17th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with bluish-black glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze. Recovered from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseTerracotta
9th-6th century BCEUrartianNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion dressed with dark purplish brown slip. Probably from the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.
12th centuryChineseCold-painted funerary ware: light gray earthenware with decoration cold-painted in polychrome pigments on a blackened ground
2nd-1st century BCEChineseJian ware: gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChinese