BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL, TYPE KU

Ceramic

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised and carved decoration. From the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue surrounded by a wide border of overglaze red enamel (probably added at a later date) and exterior decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels

Earthenware with incised and cord marked decor

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with carved vertical flutes under pale whitish gray glaze, the glaze over a coating of white slip applied to the full exterior and the upper portion of the interior. Probably made at the Cizhou kilns at Cixian, near Handan, Hebei province.

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding

Red earthenware with stamped decoration

White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green

White ware: glazed porcelain with incised mark reading "Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

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

Export enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze blue, black, and gold enamels

Light gray stoneware with impressed decor