Globular Jar with Two Handles Simulating Leaves and with Russet Splashes

Porcelain with mold-impressed decoration under pale sky-blue glaze

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over white-slip-coated applique decoration

Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze

Ding ware: porcellaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns in Quyang county, Hebei province.

Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

Cizhou-type ware: earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the russet markings in overglaze iron oxide

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion of the exterior dressed with black slip. From the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.