Ritual Food Vessel Type 'Gui' with 'Taotie' decor in the manner of a Western Zhou-period 'Gui' Vessel

Terracotta; grayish white clay with no slip

Ceramic

Mottled grayish white nephrite

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with appliqué handles and with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lower portion and the interior dressed with medium brown glaze

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing

Light gray stoneware with mottled iron-brown glaze over wax-resist brushwork decoration, with artist’s mark impressed on the base

Metal

Silver, fruitwood

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

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Terracotta