Wine taster's cup

Buff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips, the surface burnished before firing. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.

Tin-glazed earthenware

Terracotta

Fritware with overglaze painted luster decoration

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration

Gilt silver

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Jizhou ware: ivory white stoneware with decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze, the reserved designs covered with clear glaze over slip-painted details. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Fritware painted in blue (cobalt) under clear alkali glaze

Terracotta

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue. From the kilns at Punwŏn-ri, Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province.

Sterling silver