Explore Collection

Earthenware, slip-covered and burnished, with decoration painted in gold and silver and stamped

Brass, inlaid with silver

Silver, gilt, glass, and semi-precious stones

Leaded bronze

Terracotta

Terracotta

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Probably Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze. Probably from the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Black Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron oxide. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province

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

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

Gray stoneware

Silver

Buff earthenware with decoration painted in burgundy and black slips. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu or Qinghai province.

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

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

Terracotta

Porcelain with mold-impressed decoration under pale sky-blue glaze

Yaozhou ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Yaozhou ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.