Vase with Painted Grapevines

Plaster

Monochrome glazed porcelain; porcelain with pale cobalt-blue glaze, the rim finished with an application of iron-brown slip simulating a metal band; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base

Terracotta

Earthenware with incised decoration

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised and carved decoration. From the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Hard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion of the exterior dressed with black slip. From the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip; the lip banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

Incised and molded celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised and molded decoration