Small Vessel with Straight Sides and Vertical Flutes

Chinese

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with carved vertical flutes under pale whitish gray glaze, the glaze over a coating of white slip applied to the full exterior and the upper portion of the interior. Probably made at the Cizhou kilns at Cixian, near Handan, Hebei province.

Song dynasty, Northern Song period, 960-1127