Wide-mouthed jar
Chinese
Large ovoid jar with wide mouth, broad shoulders, sides tapering in toward a small flat base, and with two small movable ring handles on the shoulders; the upper body carved with a wide band of vertical ribs, the shoulders decorated with a thin band of ribs, interrupted on either side by a small panel of spiral designs enclosing a ring handle; light gray stoneware with thin natural ash glaze on the upper portion.
Proto porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE