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Monochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with variegated copper red glaze

white marble

Terracotta

Marble, cinnabar

Terracotta, traces of paint

Terracotta

Silver

Huangpu black-glazed ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze decoratively applied over a thick coat of white slip that covers the interior and that portion of the exterior under the lip. From the Huangpu kiln, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.

Russet Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.

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

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Yongzheng nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Bronze

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

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

Tang white ware: white stoneware with applique handles and pale celadon glaze

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration carved in the thick coating of underglaze white slip

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

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

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

Porcelain with pale blue glaze; with character reading "Hyang" (Chinese, "Xiang") inscribed in underglaze cobalt blue on the base; and with date reading "2003.11.3." inscribed in underglaze cobalt blue on the inside of the footring