FIVE SHALLOW BOWLS FROM THAN HOA

Black earthenware

Silver with incised decoration

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

Green Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with coral-red overglaze enamel

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with applique handles and decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt blue ground, the reserved designs embellished with overglaze polychrome enamels; with an underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamels added at a later date

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze polychrome and gold enamels; with an overglaze red enamel Tibetan (?) mark within a double square on the base

Dark green nephrite with black inclusions (so-called spinach-green jade); with spurious mark reading 'Qianlongnian zhi' in seal-script characters

Earthenware

Stoneware with impressed decoration

Changsha ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over white slip and underglaze decoration painted in iron-brown and copper-green pigments, the rim with touches of iron-brown. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.