'Gong' Covered Ritual Wine Vessel with Tiger and Owl Decor

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art

Lightly burnished gray earthenware with modeled and appliqué decoration. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qing hai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.

Cast bronze; with integrally cast inscription inside the footring

Cast bronze

Gray earthenware

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration and turquoise inlays

Coarse buff earthenware with decoration painted in black slip over a slip-dressed ground. Upper Yellow River Valley area; from Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.

Light gray stoneware with applique handles and incised and applique decor, the surface lightly burnished before firing. Anyang type.

Earthenware with cord-marked decor

Earthenware

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Red earthenware