12th century
H. 3.8 x Diam. 13.6 cm (1 1/2 x 5 3/8 in.)
Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved and incised decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
12th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised and carved decoration
12th centuryChineseProbably Cizhou ware: off-white stoneware with brown-slip splashes on a white-slip ground
12th-13th centuryChineseDing ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over mold-impressed decoration, the unglazed rim bound with metal. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
12th-13th centuryChinesePerhaps Jizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and decoration created through the application of ash onto the surface of the glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in light and dark brown slips on a white slip ground; with maker's mark reading 'Wang Jia Zao' (Made [by the] Wang Family) brushed in underglaze dark brown slip on the underside.
12th-13th centuryChineseQingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip
12th-13th centuryChineseJizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
12th-13th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the exterior with russet skin, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the russet markings in overglaze iron oxide
11th-12th centuryChineseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron oxide
12th-13th centuryChineseQingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze
12th-13th centuryChinese