China, Yuan Dynasty, 1271 to 1368 CE. This is a small pottery Jun ware vessel with incised designs and pale green glaze. However, the most interesting thing about this piece is that, probably due to too high a temperature inside the kiln, it fused to multiple pieces that are probably saggars (kiln furniture used to protect pieces during the firing process). Jun wares are typically heavily potted and have an unglazed, round base with thick glaze -- often frozen at the point of dripping -- above it. None of these wares have been excavated south of the Yangtze River, so it seems likely that they were just for domestic use in northern China (other wares from this period seem to have been explicitly made for export). Yuan Dynasty kilns were located at Jingdezhen, Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, and other places. A piece like this, known to archaeologists as a "waster", is usually from a kiln site, where large numbers of such misfired pieces would have been discarded. Size: 3.9" L x 4.75" W x 3.25" H (9.9 cm x 12.1 cm x 8.3 cm).
Provenance: Ex-Paul & Louise Bernheimer collection, Cambridge, MA and Laguna Woods, CA.
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This is the result of a kiln misfire and as such is a conglomeration of a small vessel and some highly fired, unglazed pottery that are probably saggars. These cannot be separated without breaking them. They are all as intact as the day they were kilned; there is some cracking to the glaze.