One of Ten Miscellaneous Fragments of Painted Funerary Ware

Blackened gray earthenware

Probably Ru ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluish green glaze, the interior glaze with white to buff cloudiness due either to under firing or to burial (in the waste heap at the kiln site). Probably from the Ru kilns, Henan province

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware body with lightly crackled celadon glaze. From the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province

Ceramic

Gray earthenware

Guan ware: dark gray stoneware with lightly crackled, light grayish blue glaze on the exterior and with thinly applied, crackled, pale blusih gray glaze on the interior. From the guan kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

Longquan celadon ware: molded, pale gray stoneware with matte-surfaced, bluish green celadon glaze. From the Longquan kilns in Zhejiang province

Low-fired gray earthenware

Blackened gray earthenware

Ceramic

Painted funerary ware: gray earthenware with cold-painted red pigments on a white gesso ground.

Painted funerary ware: gray earthenware with cold-painted red pigments on a white gesso ground.