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(葫芦) húlu(comma) Calabash shaped ewer(comma) (辽朝) Liao Kingdom 907- 1125 CE(comma) stoneware with honey colored lead glaze. The use of the shape of the calabash gourd in ceramics originates in Northern provinces in the late Táng but didn’t become…

（鸡冠壶）jī guān hú(comma) cockscomb pot(comma) (辽朝) Liao Kingdom 907 – 1125 CE(comma) stoneware with dark green glaze. The Khitan or Liao kings ruled north eastern China(comma) Mongolia and parts of Russia. They traded with China throughout the five…

(茧形)jiăn xíng(comma) cocoon shaped vessel (汉朝) Han dynasty 206 BCE – 226 CE. Cold painted ceramic. Cocoon shaped vessels were used for the storage of wine and are often found in Han tombs as part of the necessary items for life in the next world. The…

Tripod storage vessel (唐朝) Tang Dynasty(comma) Shaanxi province 618 – 906 CE. Earthenware with (三彩) sāncăi glaze. Táng tomb furnishings were famously covered with three colored glaze in very loose almost expressionistic decorations. The lead based…

(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…

(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…

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…