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Stoneware with celadon glaze

Painted Jizhou ware: very light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip; with two-character inscription reading 'Yuwang' incised on the base. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Cast bronze

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Cast bronze; with integrally cast inscription on vessel floor

Longquan-type ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze over carved, incised and applique decoration

Ding ware: porcelain with clear glaze over molded decoration

Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware covered all over with white slip, the floral decoration incised and the patterned background stamped into the white slip ground, all under a clear glaze

Earthenware with impressed decoration

Cast bronze

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded, carved, and incised decoration