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Fritware with molded relief decoration under blue (cobalt) transparent alkali glaze

Kaya-type ware: gray stoneware with appliqué and openwork decoration and with traces of natural ash glaze. Reportedly recovered from a tomb in Hyŏnp'ung-myŏn, Talsŏng-gun, near Kyŏngju, North Kyŏngsang province, in July 1962.

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Gray stoneware with incised, combed, and openwork decoration. Reportedly recovered from a tomb in Ch'angnyŏng, South Kyŏngsang province.

Buff-colored earthenware painted with luster (silver and copper) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin

Cast bronze

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

Proto-Kaya ware: grayish buff earthenware with appliqué handles and cord-marked surfaces

Stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration

Chosŏn white ware: porcelain with light blue glaze. From the kilns at Punwŏn-ri, Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province.

Ceramic

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing

White earthenware with leadfluxed, cobaltsplashed glaze

Buff-colored earthenware painted with black (manganese), yellow (lead-tin), and green (copper) under clear lead glaze

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Enameled ware, 'fencai' type: porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels; underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading 'Da Qing Qianlongnian zhi' in seal-script characters on the base

Cast bronze with pale green patina

Bronze

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with molded decoration and underglaze cobalt blue