FIVE SHALLOW BOWLS FROM THAN HOA

Metal

Dark green nephrite (so-called spinach-green jade)

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze yellow, pink, and red enamels and scrolling floral pattern lightly incised in the yellow enamel; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

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

Monochrome-glazed ware: pale pink earthenware with (partially degraded) lead-fluxed, clear glaze over white slip ground on the exterior; the pale blue splashes applied over the glaze in the twentieth century, using blue ink or pigment; with lead-fluxed, yellow glaze on the interior

Earthenware with green lead glaze

Monochrome glazed stoneware, "guan" type: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze

Gray earthenware with traces of cold-painted pigment

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red and green enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark simulating a coin and reading "Chang Ming Fu Gui"

Cast bronze