12th century
8 x 15.9 cm (3 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
Peter W. Scheinman purchased from J.J. Lally & Co., New York
Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with splashes of transparent amber glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-14th centuryChineseDing ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseJun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseMottled grayish white nephrite
11th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th centuryChineseDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white slip ground. Probably from the Guantai kilns, near Handan, Hebei province.
12th centuryChineseQingbai-type ware: molded porcelain with virtually colorless glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th centuryChineseJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChinese