'Jue' Ritual Wine Vessel with 'Taotie' Decor

Terracotta; light buff to purple clay; matt reddish glaze

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Changchun shuwu yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Studio of Everlasting Spring) inscription incised on base at a later date

Monochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with lightly variegated copper red glaze on the interior and very pale celadon glaze on the interior and base; with 19th-early 20th century carved and assembled wood cover with tourmaline knob

Gray stoneware with blackened surface

Ceramic

Slip-painted celadon ware: light gray celadon with celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip

Terracotta, black to gray ware

Pale greenish white nephrite

Gilt silver

Terracotta

Ceramic

Jizhou-type ware, probably Tushan ware: light gray stoneware with variegated brown and amber glazes over a white slip ground, the lower portion of the bottle coated with dark russet slip. Probably from the kilns at Tushan, Sichuan province.