Bizen Ware Plate with Decoration of Autumn Grasses in Mist

Ceramic

Bizen-type ware; reddish stoneware with incised and combed decoration and with three bands of oxidized silver-foil embellishment

Jun-type ware: light gray stoneware with light blue glaze enlivened with bluish-purple splashes from copper filings; with incised signature reading "Minoru" on the unglazed base

Ceramic

Light gray stoneware with decoration painted in iron-brown slip under translucent light bluish green glaze

Light gray stoneware (possibly porcelain) with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron black slip

Shigaraki ware: stoneware silica-filled body with uneven rust to grey colored glaze

Ceramic

Enamelled porcelain in the style of Swatow porcelain of the Wan-li period: porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamels

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

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

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