FIVE SHALLOW BOWLS FROM THAN HOA

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the unglazed rim originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns in Quyang county, Hebei province.

Northern russet ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze

Brick red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration carved in the thick coating of underglaze white slip

Liao sancai ("three-color") ware: pinkish buff earthenware with lead-fluxed clear, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes over a white-slip ground

Earthenware with brown lead glaze

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Russet Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Dongnuan ge louxia yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the East Heated Chamber, main floor) inscription incised on base at a later date

Dongkhe ware: off-white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over white slip

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in light and dark brown slips on a white slip ground; with maker's mark reading 'Wang Jia Zao' (Made [by the] Wang Family) brushed in underglaze dark brown slip on the underside.