Small Bowl with Flaring Lip and Partridge-Feather Mottles

Hammered silver

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. Probably from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the exterior with russet skin, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide

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 over incised, carved, and roulette-wheel impressed decoration

Russet Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.

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

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip, the rim dressed with white slip under clear glaze, the base and unglazed lower portion with a brush-written inscription reading "Wei Han Han / Wei / Wei"

Russet Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the unglazed rim originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns in Quyang county, Hebei province.

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

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