Short-Necked Ovoid Bottle Lightly Segmented to Resemble a Melon

Cast bronze with a cast inscription on vessel floor

Probably Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze. Probably from the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Tang/Five Dynasties white ware, possibly Xing ware: porcelain with clear glaze, the barbed rim knife-cut. Possibly from the Xing kilns, Hebei province.

Transparent emerald-green glass with red lead pigment on the surface

Yaozhou ware: medium gray stoneware coated all over with white slip, the decoration carved through the slip to reveal the underlying darker body, the exterior of the jar further covered with celadon glaze, the interior left unglazed; Made at Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded, carved, and incised decoration

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over a thin coating of white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns, Huangpuzhen, Tongchuan, Shaanxi province

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware covered all over with white slip, the floral decoration incised and the patterned background stamped into the white slip ground, all under a clear glaze

Xing or Xing-type ware: porcellaneous white stoneware with pale blue glaze over white slip on the interior and upper portion of the exterior; probably from kilns in Hebei province, perhaps from the Xing kilns at Neiqiu, Hebei province

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded, carved, and incised decoration

Stoneware with dark brown glaze

Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze