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Lightly burnished gray earthenware with modeled and appliqué decoration. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qing hai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.

Light gray stoneware with impressed and appliqué decoration; with localized areas of light blue on the surface, perhaps slip applied before firing

Yue-type ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over appliqué handles and incised bowstring lines

Northern Yue-type ware: light gray stoneware with olive-hued celadon glaze over relief and appliqué decoration, the glaze streaked with blue

Yaozhou "moon white" (yuebai) ware: very light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over thin coating of white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Guan- or Ge-type ware: light gray stoneware with crackled, grayish blue glaze

White earthenware clay, engobe and paraffin decoration, white enamel

Punch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration lightly brushed in white slip

Light gray stoneware with localized areas of natural ash glaze and of kiln-darkened surface

Light gray stoneware with localized areas of kiln-darkened surface

Light gray stoneware with incised and openwork decoration and with kiln-darkened surface

Light gray stoneware, the jar and cover with kiln-darkened surfaces, the jar also with localized areas of natural ash glaze, the natural glaze droplets now disintegrated and flaked away

Light gray stoneware with kiln-darkened surface

Light gray stoneware with kiln-darkened surface and with localized areas of natural ash glaze, the natural glaze droplets now disintegrated and flaked away

Light gray stoneware with buff surfaces and localized areas of natural ash glaze. Possibly made near Kyŏngju, North Kyŏngsang province.

Brown-glazed ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze

White ware: porcelain with clear glaze

White ware: porcelain with clear glaze

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

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