Pear-Shaped Bottle with Scrolling Peony Decor

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale blue glaze embellished with iron-brown splashes

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white slip ground under a clear glaze

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze brown slip on a white slip ground, with details touched on the surface of the clear glaze in russet-brown slip and olive-green glaze in localized areas, the unglazed lowest portion finished with dark brown glaze

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in black slip on a white slip ground, all under a turquoise glaze

Translucent greenish white and brown nephrite

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration carved in the thick coating of underglaze white slip

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

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze suffused with buff markings and bluish white streaks. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with cloudy celadon glaze, an unglazed, molded decorative element appliquéd at the center of the floor. From the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province.