Segmented Ewer with Ribbon and Brocade Decor

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

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

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

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with carved vertical flutes under pale whitish gray glaze, the glaze over a coating of white slip applied to the full exterior and the upper portion of the interior. Probably made at the Cizhou kilns at Cixian, near Handan, Hebei province.

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

Ding-type ware: translucent, off-white porcelaneous stoneware with clear glaze

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze over carved ribs and appliqué handles

Green Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze

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

Simulated jiaotai ware; light gray stoneware with pale yellow glaze over appliqué thin layers of brown and white clays laminated to simulate marbling

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

Red Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze and with traces of decoration in overglaze gold leaf