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Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin and purplish brown slip on the lower portion. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.

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

Northern russet ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze

Porcelain with dark brown glaze, the decoration in overglaze golden slip

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

White stoneware with clear glaze over molded decoration and stylized Chinese character "shou" (longevity) impressed into the flat floor; the rim banded with metal

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over mold-impressed decoration, the unglazed rim bound with metal. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

White stoneware with clear glaze over molded decoration and stylized Chinese character "shou" (longevity) impressed into the flat floor; the rim banded with metal

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised, carved, and combed decoration

Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

Glass

Mottled yellow nephrite; the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan

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

Terracotta

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" on the base

Ceramic

Terracotta

Green-gray glaze on red earthenware(?); gold lacquer repairs on mouth and body