Globular Jar with Two Handles Simulating Leaves and with Russet Splashes

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

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 bluish glaze over molded and carved decoration

Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze

Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised bowstring line decoration on exterior

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

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over carved and combed decoration; the rim banded with metal

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

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

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion of the exterior dressed with black slip. From the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.