Bizen Ware Plate with Decoration of Autumn Grasses in Mist

Ceramic shino bowl

Porcelain with dark brown glaze, the decoration in overglaze golden slip

Imitation Wanli, "wucai" type ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Jun-type ware: light gray stoneware with light blue glaze enlivened with bluish-purple splashes; with circular seal reading "Minoru" impressed into the wall of the foot-ring before firing

Temmoku-inspired ware; light gray stoneware with impressed decoration inlaid with white slip under clear glaze, the floor of the bowl covered with black glaze partially washed with overglaze brown slip

Ceramic

Temmoku-type ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze streaked with yellow overglaze, the foot and base dressed with dark brown slip glaze; with incised signature reading "Moriyasu saku" on the base

Ceramic

Jun-type ware: gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze, the unglazed areas dressed with brown slip

Light gray stoneware with decoration in greenish-brown glaze over opaque, bluish white rice ash glaze

Light gray stoneware with localized areas of natural ash glaze over impressed decoration and marks from shells used as firing supports; with stamped potter's mark on the base

Ceramic