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Ceramic

Temmoku-inspired ware; light gray stoneware with impressed decoration inlaid with white slip under clear glaze, the floor of the bowl covered with black glaze partially washed with overglaze brown slip

Metal

Metal

High-tin bronze

Bronze

Faience

Silver

Light gray stoneware with localized areas of natural ash glaze over impressed decoration and marks from shells used as firing supports; with stamped potter's mark on the base

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised, carved, and applique decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Monochrome glazed stoneware, "guan" type: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze

Incised celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised, carved, and applique decoration. Probably from the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejian province.

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.

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration incised and carved into an all-over coating of white slip, the whole piece covered with a clear, transparent glaze

Sancai ("three color") ware: pink earthenware with lead-fluxed clear glaze embellished with designs in cobalt-blue, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes over a white-slip ground

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised, carved, and roulette-wheel impressed decoration

Longquan-type ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze over carved, incised and applique decoration

Terracotta

Terracotta