Ritual Wine Vessel (Zun)

Cast bronze with pale green patina

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Probably from a kiln at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base base before firing

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron oxide

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved and incised decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Earthenware with brown lead glaze

Ceramic

Grayish buff earthenware

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

Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze