Ritual Wine Vessel (Zhi)

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

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing

Mottled buff and olive-green nephrite, dimly translucent at the edges

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Earthenware with traces of slip-painted decoration

Yaozhou ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Black earthenware

Light gray earthenware with black painted decor

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved against a cobalt-blue ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base of vessel

Pale greenish white nephrite

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale blue glaze over carved and incised decoration

Stoneware with celadon glaze