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Gilt silver

Punch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over stamped and incised decoration inlaid with white slip

Yue ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised, combed, applique, and gouged decoration

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with splashes of transparent amber glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Bronze

Terracotta with bands of black, red and white pigment

Porcelain

Terracotta

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

White ware: porcelain with lightly incised "anhua" decoration at the top and bottom of the handle

Terracotta with black gloss

Hard paste off-white porcelain with gilt rims

Silver

Proto-Kaya ware; grayish buff earthenware with appliqué handles, cord-marked surfaces, and lightly carved decoration on the neck

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.

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide, the base with an incised inscription reading 'Gongyu'. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province, probably from those at Luhuaping or Chidun.

Terracotta with dark brown slip used for decoration and for interior of cup, handle

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

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

Cast bronze; Zhengzhou phase, Erligang type