BELT BUCKLE IN FIVE FRAGMENTS

Ceramic

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised and carved decoration

Painted funerary ware: gray earthenware with cold-painted red pigments on a white gesso ground.

Guan ware: dark gray stoneware with lightly crackled, light grayish blue glaze. From the guan kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province

Ceramic

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluish celadon glaze over carved or molded decoration. From the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province

Blackened gray earthenware

Painted funerary ware: gray earthenware with cold-painted red pigments on a white gesso ground.

Low-fired gray earthenware

Low-fired gray earthenware

Probably Ru ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluishgreen glaze, the exterior glaze with white to buff cloudiness due either to under firing or to burial (in the waste heap at the kiln site). Probably from the Ru kilns, Henan province

Blackened dark gray earthenware