ROUND BOWL WITH LOOP HANDLES

Earthenware

Lead-glazed funerary ware: brick-red earthenware with degraded lead-fluxed emerald green glaze

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

Cast bronze

Sancai ("three color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splashed clear glaze on the lip and exterior, the glazes slightly degraded

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 2 (er) inscribed on base before firing; additional stroke added later to convert mark to numeral 3 (san)

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale blue glaze embellished with iron-brown splashes

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion of the exterior dressed with black slip. From the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.

Silver with parcel gilding and with inlaid black stone

Marbled earthenware with amber colored lead glaze

Bronze

Reddish buff earthenware with appliqué handles and cord-impressed decoration. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.