Flask-Shaped Bottle 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

Lacquer on wood

Temmoku-type ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze streaked with yellow overglaze, the foot and base with medium brown skin; with incised signature reading "Moriyasu saku" on the base

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

Light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and russet markings

Porcelain with dark brown glaze, the decoration in overglaze golden slip

Imitation Wanli, "wucai" type ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Ceramic

Ceramic

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

Enamelled porcelain in the style of Swatow porcelain of the Wan-li period: porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamels