Large Baluster Vase with Blue Glaze

Terracotta

Terracotta with polychrome decoration

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

Terracotta

Northern black ware of Cizhou: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the exterior with russet skin, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide

Fritware painted with luster (copper and silver) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin

Ceramic

Copper alloy

Silver, gilt

Cizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze over white slip, the decoration incised into the glaze before firing to reveal the white slip. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Longquan celadon ware: fine grained, light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Carved rhinoceros horn