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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.

Cizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze over white slip, the decoration incised into the glaze before firing to reveal the white slip. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale blue glaze over carved and incised decoration

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration, the exterior with carved vertical lines suggesting petals. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved, incised, and combed decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

'Qingbai' ware: porcelain with pale blue glaze over appliqué ornaments.

Silver and ebony

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