Shallow Dish with Stylized Floral Decor

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.

Qingbai ware: porcelain with sky blue glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip

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

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

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.

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

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale bluish glaze, the unglazed rim originally bound with metal

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over carved and incised decoration

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

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over mold-impressed decoration, the unglazed rim bound with metal. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Cizhou-type ware: earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze

Jian ware: gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.