Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and with Five Large Silver Splashes against a Ground of Silver Oil-Spots

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

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

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

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in light and dark brown slips on a white slip ground; with maker's mark reading 'Wang Jia Zao' (Made [by the] Wang Family) brushed in underglaze dark brown slip on the underside.

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion dressed with dark purplish brown slip. Probably from the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide, the lip banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

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

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Porcelain with mold-impressed decoration under pale sky-blue glaze

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the rim with clear glaze over white slip

Ding-type ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over molded decoration. Perhaps from kilns at Jiexu, Shanxi province.

Qingbai ware: porcelain with sky blue glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip