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Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, caramel-brown, and clear glazes over stamped decoration and with lead fluxed, pale yellow glaze on the feet. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Sancai ("three color") ware: pinkish white earthenware with lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splahed clear glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior, the (slightly degraded) glazes over a white-slip ground

Sancai ("three color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splashed clear glaze on the lip and exterior, the glazes slightly degraded

Sancai ("three color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splashed clear glaze

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed clear, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze (now much degraded)

Cizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing. From the Ciyaobao kilns, Lingwu county, Ningxia Huizu Autonomous Region.

Cizhou-type lead-glazed ware: brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze over an all-over coating of white slip that has been incised and carved to create the decoration

Cizhou ware: buff to light-gray stoneware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze, now much degraded.

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in black slip on a white-slip ground under a clear glaze, the clear glaze then covered all over with a lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze; with brush-written inscription on the interior of the foot ring

Dongkhe ware: off-white stoneware with white slip and ivory-hued glaze over incised decoration

Dongkhe ware: off-white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over white slip

Dongkhe ware: molded light gray stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over white slip

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

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

Northern russet ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze

Northern russet ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze

Light gray stoneware (possibly porcelain) with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron black slip

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide. Probably from the kilns at Zibo, Shandong province.