FIVE SHALLOW BOWLS FROM THAN HOA

Gray stoneware

Gray stoneware with blackened surface

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised and carved

Ceramic

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the saggar made of coarse reddish buff firing clay. Probably from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province

Monochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with variegated copper red glaze with crackled green transmutations on the neck and mouth

Jizhou ware: light gray (or light grayish buff) stoneware with dark brown glaze suffused with buff markings. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Northern russet ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration

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

Stoneware with celadon glaze