Ovoid Jar with Short Neck and Everted Rim and with Decoration of Bird and Fruiting Peach Branches

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.

Ceramic

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Ziqiang buxi yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Room of Unceasing Self-Improvement) inscription incised on base at a later date

Carved cinnabar lacquer over a wooden core; with incised inscription reading "Ta

Liao sancai ("three-color") ware: off-white earthenware with applique molded decorative elements and lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze over a white-slip ground

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

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved and incised decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration

Earthenware

Earthenware with green lead glaze

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base

Monochrome glazed porcelain; porcelain with pale cobalt-blue glaze, the rim finished with an application of iron-brown slip simulating a metal band; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base