Bowl with Carved Floral Decor

Terracotta

Terracotta, brown-gray ware

Gray stoneware with variegated clear, white, and pale lavender blue glazes over impressed decoration (so-called "mishima" technique); with incised signature of the artist reading "Makoto YABE" on the unglazed base, the surname written idiosyncratically

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Terracotta with traces of matte black paint

Silver, fruitwood

Silver

Yue-type ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over applique lug handles; the damaged rim banded in metal; painted decoration added in modern times. From northern China -- place of manufacture uncertain.

Terracotta

Cloudy, pale greenish white nephrite

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Reddish earthenware covered in whitish slip and painted in red (iron), black (manganese and iron), and green (chromium) under clear lead glaze