Ceramic
17th centuryJapaneseCeramic
18th centuryJapaneseTemmoku-type ware; light gray stoneware with wax-resist decoration, the glazed areas with black glaze covered with iron-brown slip glaze
20th centuryJapaneseGray earthenware with traces of natural ash glaze
JapaneseBizen-type ware; reddish stoneware with incised and combed decoration and with three bands of oxidized silver-foil embellishment
20th centuryJapaneseRaku ware: light gray earthenware with black glaze and with seal on underside shoulder reading, "Raku"
19th centuryJapaneseCeramic
19th centuryJapaneseKyoto ware: buff earthenware with clear glaze and decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels
19th centuryJapanesePorcelain with overglaze red, green, and gold enamels
18th centuryJapaneseOnda ware, 'zogan' technique: light gray stoneware with pale olive glaze over brush-applied white slip on the interior and over white slip brushed over chatter marks on the exterior; with three- (or four-?) character stamp of the Onda kilns impressed on the base
21st centuryJapanesePorcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, with relief plub blossoms touched on in white slip and embellished with pale celadon glaze, the background with overglaze yellow enamel; with spurious mark underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
19th centuryJapaneseGray 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
21st centuryJapanese