Ritual Food Steamer (Yan) with Bovine Decor

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in black slip on a white slip ground, all under a turquoise glaze

Silver

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with misfired olive-brown celadon glaze and kiln adhesions. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Molded celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over mold-impressed decoration, the unglazed rim bound with metal. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta 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

Light gray stoneware with decoration in greenish-brown glaze over opaque, bluish white rice ash glaze

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with coral-red overglaze enamel

Terracotta

Gray stoneware with kiln-darkened surface