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Terracotta

Terracotta

Terracotta

Terracotta

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze suffused with buff markings and bluish white streaks. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Russet Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with mottled russet-surfaced, dark brown glaze. Probably from the kilns at Jianci village, possibly from those at East or West Yanchuan village, Quyang county, Hebei province.

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

Sandalwood, carved, with ivory fittings

Longquan celadon ware; molded light gray stoneware with applique handles and celadon glaze. From the kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Ding ware: Porcelain with pale, ivory-hued glaze over appliqué molded decoration. From North China, probably from the Ding kilns, near Quyang, Hebei province.

Jade

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

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

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale, sky-blue glaze over molded decoration, the unglazed lip banded with silver. From the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

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

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

Fritware with black dashes under clear glaze

Glazed ceramic ware: light gray stoneware with mottled brown glaze over incised decoration. Made in Namwŏn-gun, North Chŏlla province.

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

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