Circular Bowl with Lotus Decor

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Green Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with grayish olive celadon glaze

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

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

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white slip ground. Probably from the Guantai kilns, near Handan, Hebei province.

Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

"Soft Jun" ware: light gray stoneware with thick, crackled robin's-egg blue glaze