Covered 'Dou' Food Container on High Foot with Animal-Mask Ring Handles, one of a pair

Terracotta

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with misfired dark brown glaze and bluish white markings, the markings probably from an application of ash

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Chonghua gong Sui'an shi yong"(Palace of Double Glory, used in the Room of Ease and Contentment) inscription incised on base at a later date

Qingbai-type ware: molded pale gray stoneware with pale sky-blue glaze

White ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with clear glaze

Iga ware: grayish-white stoneware partially covered with a transparent green ash glaze

Translucent pale green nephrite with brown veins and slightly calcified, bone-colored patches; gilt bronze rim

Terracotta, brown-gray ware

Olive and grayish-green translucent nephrite with deep brown and dark green patches and with altered areas

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

Light gray stoneware with misfired (?) bluish glaze, now cloudy green glaze