12th century
12.9 x 12.3 cm (5 1/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip
12th centuryChineseYaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved and incised decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th centuryChineseGreen Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration in overglaze iron oxide
12th centuryChinese'Qingbai' ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over incised and carved decoration, the interior with appliqué containers, stylized sculpture, and leaf stems, the appliqué elements touched with iron-brown slip to add areas of localized color in firing. Probably from a kiln in Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseJian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. Probably from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province
12th-13th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseDing-type ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over molded decoration. Perhaps from kilns at Jiexu, Shanxi province.
12th centuryChineseJizhou 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 kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseCast bronze with a cast inscription on vessel floor
10th-13th centuryChineseSimulated jiaotai ware; light gray stoneware with pale yellow glaze over appliqué thin layers of brown and white clays laminated to simulate marbling
11th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze
11th-12th centuryChinese