Kiln Waster: Jian-Ware Tea Bowl Fused to the Interior of a Saggar

Chinese

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the saggar made of coarse reddish buff firing clay. Probably from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province

Song dynasty, 960-1279