BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL, TYPE KU

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

Gray stoneware with cold-painted decoration over white gesso ground

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing

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

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with emerald-green enamel over crackled glaze

Pale grayish white nephrite; with mark on the base reading 'Qianlong Yu Zhi' in seal-script characters

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with incised and carved decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze over incised, carved, and combed decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Gray stoneware

White ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-white glaze (the glaze possibly over white slip)

Jizhou ware: ivory white stoneware with decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze, the reserved designs covered with clear glaze over slip-painted details, selected details incised through the brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.