Height: 7.5 cm. (3 in.)
Diameter: 19.8 cm. (7 3/4 in.)
Northern Song period
11th century
Height: 15.7 cm. (6 1/8 in.)
Length: 50.0 cm. (19 3/4 in.)
Depth: 21.0 cm. (8 1/4 in.)
Jin-Yuan dynasty
13th-early 14th century
Diameter: 11.2 cm. (4 3/8 in.)
Height: 6.5 cm. (2 5/8 in.)
Southern Song-Yuan dynasty
12th-13th century
Published: Sharpening the Tools: Imagery and Accoutrement from the Scholar’s World (Kaikodo, Autumn 2017), no. 31.
Height: 38.1 cm. (15 in.)
Diameter: 31.1 cm. (12 1/4 in.)
Kamakura period
14th century
Published: Kaikodo Journal XXVI (Spring 2010), no. 72.
Height: 19.0 cm. (7 1/2 in.)
Width: 16.4 cm. (6 1/2 in.)
Depth: 8.3 cm. (3 1/4 in.)
Late Ming dynasty
Circa 1620-1645
Published: The Peony Pavilion Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics for Japan (c. 1580-1650), Christie’s London, 12 June 1989, no. 400, p. 121; Kaikodo Journal XXVIII (Spring 2012), no. 62.
Diameter: 20.9 cm. (8 1/4 in.)
Height: 2.5 cm. (1 in.)
Late Ming dynasty
Early 17th century
Inscribed: “Tianxia taiping” 天下太平 (Great peace under heaven).
Published: Sharpening the Tools: Imagery and Accoutrement from the Scholar’s World (Kaikodo, Autumn 2017), no. 51.
Height: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)
Diameter: 10.5 cm. (4 1/8 in.)
Early Qing dynasty
Second half 17th century
Published: Kaikodo Journal XXXVI (Spring 2020), no. 43.
Length: 12.2 cm. (4 7/8 in.)
Width: 4.9 cm. (2 in.)
Depth: 2.7 cm. (7/8 in.)
Edo period
17th century
Inscribed: “Ninsei” 仁清.
Exhibited and published: Edo Zenki Tōji Meihoten, “Exhibition of Famous Treasures of Early Edo Period,” Goto Museum, Tokyo, 1961, no. 16; Kaikodo Journal XXXI (Spring 2015), no. 23.