Small Hemispherical 'Patra' Alms Bowl with Lightly Inverted Lip

Terracotta; buff slip, brown and red glaze

Cast bronze

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.

Reddish earthenware covered in white slip and painted with black (manganese and iron) and red (iron) under clear lead glaze

Terracotta; reddish clay with fine lustrous black glaze

Terracotta

Light gray stoneware with variegated copper-green glaze applied with a brush, with artist’s mark impressed on the base

Leaded bronze

Ceramic

Cast bronze

Terracotta, gray-brown ware