ALABASTRON BOUGHT AT ATHENS

Hard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold

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

Light reddish-brown, slightly micaceous terracotta with brownish-black painted decoration

Fritware

Hard-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration.

Terracotta; reddish clay, black paint

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in black slip on a white slip ground, all under a turquoise glaze

Monochrome-glazed ware: pale pink earthenware with (partially degraded) lead-fluxed, clear glaze over white slip ground on the exterior; the pale blue splashes applied over the glaze in the twentieth century, using blue ink or pigment; with lead-fluxed, yellow glaze on the interior

Terracotta

Terracotta, brown to gray ware

'Qingbai' ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over incised and carved decoration, the interior with appliqué containers, stylized sculpture, and leaf stems, the appliqué elements touched with iron-brown slip to add areas of localized color in firing. Probably from a kiln in Fujian province.

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.