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
Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.
11th-12th centuryChineseOriginally a pale greenish-white nephrite changed to a creamy-buff because of burning (so-called chicken-bone jade); the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan
16th-17th centuryChineseSilver
17th centuryBritishBlackened gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
6th century BCEGreekBlack-surfaced gray stoneware with combed and openwork decoration and with splashes of natural ash glaze. Reportedly recovered in Kochang, South Kyŏngsang province in 1961
5th-6th centuryKoreanTerracotta
5th century BCEEtruscanEarthenware with cold-painted pigments
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseTerracotta
RomanMonochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze coral-red enamel; with overglaze red enamel mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base
18th centuryChineseCeramic
ChinesePlaster
17th-16th century BCEMinoan