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Silver

Lead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed, emerald-green glaze over molded decoration

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with incised, molded, and appliqué decoration under celadon glaze. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area, northeastern Zhejiang province.

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded and appliqué decoration. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area, northeastern Zhejiang province.

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: molded white earthenware with lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze

Changsha ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over white slip and underglaze decoration painted in iron-brown and copper-green pigments, the rim with touches of iron-brown. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.

White ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-white glaze (the glaze possibly over white slip)

Green Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze

Green Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze

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

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

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the rim with clear glaze over white slip

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

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

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

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

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: gray (or possibly brick-red) earthenware with lead-fluxed, dark brown glaze over incised decoration

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: buff earthenware with lead-fluxed, orange-brown glaze over incised decoration, the decoration incised into the wash of white slip that covers the vessel's interior, the white slip continuing over the upper portion of the exterior

Shufu ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze; with molded characters reading "Shu Fu" incorporated into the design