Small Lotus-Bud-Shaped Jar with Oil-Spot Decoration

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin and purplish brown slip on the lower portion. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.

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

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over molded and carved decoration

Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

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

Hammered silver

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

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown and transparent amber glazes. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with off-white glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip

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

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide