Square Plate with Abstract Decor

Ceramic

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

Ceramic

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

Molded white stoneware with decoration in pink and iron-saturated blue glaze over a semi-opaque, blue-tinted white glaze

Temmoku-type ware: light gray stoneware with slate gray glaze mottled with blue overglaze; with impressed seal mark reading "Moriyasu" on the exterior wall above the footring

Ceramic

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

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

Reddish buff stoneware with variegated light blue and purple glaze

Temmoku-type ware; light gray stoneware with wax-resist decoration, the glazed areas with black glaze covered with iron-brown slip glaze

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