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Tea caddy with wooden cover(comma) (清朝) Qing Dynasty 1644 – 1912 CE. Eighteenth century blue underglaze porcelain. This type of blue and white porcelain is typical eighteenth century manufacture. The blue is lighter in shade than earlier Ming and…

(鬲) Li tripod(comma) Inner Mongolia (夏家店文化) Xìajiādiàn culture 2200 – 1600 BCE. Brown earthenware charred black. Li tripods were an extremely efficient invention of Chinese ceramic technology. The legs were made hollow so as to allow for greater…

Porcelain plate(comma) (清朝) Qing Dynasty 1644 – 1912 CE. This pattern is from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty 1735 – 1796 CE. This is blue and white porcelain with red and gold overglaze. Blue and white porcelain was first manufactured in the…

(罐) Two handled guan vessel(comma) (寺洼) Sìwā culture 2100 – 1000 BCE(comma) Gansu Province. Gray earthenware. The Sìwā culture developed at the Holocene optimum in the Hexi corridor of Gansu Province(comma) later a part of the Silk Road. Their…

Cream pitcher(comma) Rose Canton pattern (清朝) Qing Dynasty 1644 – 1912 CE. Early nineteenth century Rose Canton porcelain. Manufactured in Jingdezhen and sent to Canton for painting. The shape is only for foreign trade as Chinese tea sets do not have…

Porcelain tea pot(comma) (清朝)Qing Dynasty 1644 – 1912 CE. A classic porcelain tea pot made for European trade(comma) it was manufactured sometime in the mid-nineteenth century ca. 1830 – 1870. The shape is decidedly of western origin with a landscape…

(鬲) Li tripod(comma) (龙山) Long Shan culture 3000 – 2000 BCE. Red earthenware li shaped tripod effigy pitcher. These objects were used in rituals for ancestor worship. Some researchers speculate that the effigy is human and probably represents a…

Hu shaped storage vessel(comma) Gansu province (马家窑文化) Măjiāyáo culture(comma) (马厂) Măchăng phase 2300 – 2000 BCE. Red/buff earthenware with purple to black painted design. These vessels were used for the storage of liquids most likely wine. They are…

(香薰) xiāng xūn(comma) Incense burner(comma) (汉朝) Han Dynasty 206 BCE – 220 CE. Painted grey earthenware in mountain shape with mythical creatures. This incense burner is modeled on the mythical (博山) Bó shān or fairy mountain(comma) a place where…

(罐)Guan shaped vessel with (饕餮)tāotìe design handles. (周代) Zhou dynasty 1046 – 256 BCE. The tāotìe design is said to represent a mythical gluttonous beast but some say it is a dragon. It is a ubiquitous design from early in the Shang Dynasty until…