FIVE SHALLOW BOWLS FROM THAN HOA

Stoneware with brown glaze

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

Cast bronze with patina and encrustation

White ware: glazed porcelain with incised mark reading "Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

Cast bronze; with an inscription cast behind the animal's neck

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

Earthenware

Transparent amber glass over lead core, the lead possibly covered with gold foil

Grayish white jadeite with emerald green markings

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown and transparent amber glazes. From the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Cast bronze with traces of malachite and copper-wire inlay

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