BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL, TYPE KU

Ceramic

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Dark green nephrite (so-called spinach-green jade)

Cast bronze

Cast bronze

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Qianlong-style molded porcelain: porcelain with molded decoration under very pale blue qingbai-type glaze

Ceramic

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the rim banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

Red earthenware with stamped decoration

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration, the exterior with carved vertical lines suggesting petals. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.