Collection

Porcelain bowl with colored lotus flower pattern

This porcelain bowl made by Changsha Kiln is designed with wide opening mouth, curved belly and round bottom.

Red and green colored porcelain ewer with white glaze

The handled ewer was a utensil used for pouring wine or tea.

Green colored porcelain ewer with pagoda design in celadon

This is a portable wine ewer with a small opening, flat belly, diamond shaped short spout in the front and a handle in the back.

Brown colored porcelain ewer with poem design

The handled ewer was a utensil for pouring wine. Poem design was an important feature of Changsha Kiln porcelain decoration.

Brown speckled porcelain ewer with dancing figure design

As a utensil used to handle water, the ewer could be used as a handled ewer or carried with strings attached.

Porcelain ewer with applied design around the Chinese character “Zhang”

This short-necked, flat-bottomed vessel has an upturned mouth brim, a short octagonal spout, two ears around its shoulder for carriage, and a tubular belly.

Blue-and–white porcelain plate

The sunflower-shaped mouth of the plate is decorated with seawater pattern and the ring foot ornamented with grass patterns.

Green glaze porcelain figurine

This porcelain figurine is of light yellow roughcast, covered entirely with green glaze.

Pottery sty in green glaze

It is a funerary model with a low fired lead glaze.

A pair of celadon figures

As they were used as funerary objects, tomb figures evolved from human burial customs.

Brown colored tomb guardian beasts in celadon

Guardian beasts were used to guard tomb and usually appeared in pairs, one with the face of a man, one with the face of a beast.

Double-bun maid figure with long robe

As a vivid and delicate figure, it tells us much about embroidery and clothing as well as feminine temperament during the Tang Dynasty.

Brown and green colored porcelain pillow with lion pedestal and poem design

It is a kind of pillow used to keep cool in summer.

Five-colored phoenix-tail-shaped porcelain vase

This vase, a huge and tall display ware, features a long neck, drum-shaped belly, and bright and transparent glaze

Dustpan-shaped porcelain inkstone with beast pedestal

The ink slab with a beast-head and hoof-shaped feet takes after the shape of ancient Chinese dustpan.

Porcelain bowl with patterns of branches, leaves and lotus flowers

It is a porcelain bowl with a wide open mouth, cambered belly and ring foot.

Porcelain bowl with patterns of dragon and phoenix

It is a porcelain bowl with a wide open mouth, cambered belly and ring foot.

underglazed five colors porcelain vase with grape vines design in openwork

The shoulder is decorated with landscape. The middle section is with openwork of scrolling grape vines, insects are creeping on the vines.

Gourd-shaped porcelain vase

This vase is decorated with a bundle of chrysanthemum in underglaze.

celadon porcelain teapot with double-fish-shaped handle

It is a typical utensils made by Hengzhou Kiln in Hunan Province.

Famille rose porcelain vase

This vase is used as a decoration.

Celadon vase by Longquan kiln

This vase features a small dish-shaped mouth, cylinder-shaped long neck, drum-shaped belly and circular bottom.

Longquan celadon crackle-glazed bowl

The bowl has widely flared sides that rise from the small foot ring.

Blue-and-white porcelain plate

This large plate is coated with blue-and white glaze.