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

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with cloudy celadon glaze over appliqué decorative elements. From the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province.

Longquan celadon ware; molded light gray stoneware with applique handles and celadon glaze. From the kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

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

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

Cizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with rust brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing. From the Ciyaobao kilns, Lingwu county, Ningxia Huizu Autonomous Region.

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown and transparent amber glazes. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze suffused with buff markings. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Simulated jiaotai ware; light gray stoneware with pale yellow glaze over appliqué thin layers of brown and white clays laminated to simulate marbling

Qingbai-type ware: molded porcelain with virtually colorless glaze

Ganzhou ware: light gray stoneware, the unglazed exterior with combed and applique decoration, the interior with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Qili, Ganzhou, Jiangxi 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.