Circular Covered Box, the Domed Cover with Decoration of a Branch of Blossoming Plum under a Crescent Moon

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

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with cloudy celadon glaze over appliqué decorative elements. From the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province.

Cizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with rust brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing. From the Ciyaobao kilns, Lingwu county, Ningxia Huizu Autonomous Region.

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with black glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-brown slip

Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze

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

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

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

Qingbai ware: porcelain with sky-blue glaze over mold-impressed decoration; the unglazed rims originally bound with metal. Probably from the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.

Green Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with grayish olive celadon glaze over applique decoration