Ovoid Jar with Short, Flaring Neck and Abstract Decor

Transparent emerald-green glass with red lead pigment on the surface

White stoneware with appliqué handle and feet and with dark brown glaze on the exterior and clear glaze on the interior. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Huangdao ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze with variegated light blue suffusions

White ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with clear glaze

Ding ware: Porcelain with pale, ivory-hued glaze over appliqué molded decoration. From North China, probably from the Ding kilns, near Quyang, Hebei province.

Changsha ware: light gray stoneware with three molded appliqué decorative elements, the ewer coated with olive-toned celadon glaze over a thin coat of white slip, the appliqué elements further splashed with caramel glaze. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.

Red earthenware with stamped decoration

Burnished black stoneware

Lushan ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze embellished with variegated light blue splashes. Probably from the Duandian kiln, Lushan county, Henan province.

Sancai ("three color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splashed clear glaze

Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze

Gray stoneware with cold-painted decoration over white gesso ground