Small Ovoid Jar with Short, Flaring Neck

Burnished black stoneware

Changsha ware: light gray stoneware with three molded appliqué decorative elements, the ewer coated with olive-toned celadon glaze over a thin coat of white slip, the appliqué elements further splashed with caramel glaze. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed clear, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Turned bronze

Silver with repousse decoration picked out in parcel gilding

Changsha ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over white slip and underglaze decoration painted in iron-brown and copper-green pigments, the rim with touches of iron-brown. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.

Gray stoneware with cold-painted decoration over white gesso ground

Red earthenware with stamped decoration

Light gray stoneware with olive-green ash glaze over applique lug handles

Light gray stoneware with appliqué handle and spout and with medium brown glaze. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Silvered bronze

Marbled earthenware with amber colored lead glaze