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Shufu ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze; with molded characters reading "Shu Fu" incorporated into the design

Porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, green, black, and gold enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Ta Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with off-white glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze yellow, green, and black enamels on the upper portion and the lower portion with an underglaze cobalt powder blue ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on base

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the russet markings in overglaze iron oxide

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Earthenware with lead fluxed glaze

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 2 (er) inscribed on base before firing; additional stroke added later to convert mark to numeral 3 (san)

Porcelain with black glaze

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" on the base