Small Pear-Shaped Vase with Ribbed Walls and Mock-Ring Handles

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with off-white glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide, the lip bound with tin, the base with an incised number, and the lower portion of the bowl with a brush-written inscription reading "Shang zhai ji". From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron oxide

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with grayish olive celadon glaze over applique decoration

Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

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

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, 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.

Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze

Qingbai-type ware: molded porcelain with virtually colorless glaze

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with grayish olive 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, selected details incised through the brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.