Lekythos (oil flask): Odysseus and Companions Escape

Red earthenware

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing

Alabaster

Terracotta with glossy black paint

Inlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with carved decoration and inlaid black and white slip under celadon glaze

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Ceramic

Porcelain with incised and carved elements, decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and copper red, and celadon glaze in localized areas

'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.

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved against a cobalt-blue ground